U.S. Patent 11074343 was awarded to NOMURA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, LTD. on July 27, 2021 and is entitled “Inspection system, inspection method, and computer program.” The first named inventor is Teruhiro Tagomori of Tokyo, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A requester device 12 registers inspection target data in a file server 18. An inspector device 14 operated by an inspector who inspects whether the inspection target data is illegitimate or not acquires, from the file server 18, the inspection target data registered by the requester device 12 and registers an inspection result of the inspection target data in a blockchain network 22. A viewer device 16 acquires, from the blockchain network 22, the inspection result registered by the inspector device 14 and executes data processing based on the inspection result. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on October 03, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/591915 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11074343. The primary examiner was Brandon S Hoffman.

NOMURA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, LTD., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 34 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 0 times by other U.S. patents according to our law firm research, and can be considered an innovative patent in the field of cryptocurrency and blockchain.

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