U.S. Patent 10887254 was awarded to Red Hat, Inc. on January 05, 2021 and is entitled “Enterprise messaging using blockchain system.” The first named inventor is Ondrej Zizka of Ceske Budejovice, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Enterprise messaging using a blockchain system. A method of the disclosure includes receiving, by a first node of a blockchain system of an enterprise service bus, a message transmitted by a second node of the blockchain system. The blockchain system may be configured to store a plurality of messages communicated via the enterprise service bus in a distributed ledger. The method also includes determining, by the first node, whether the first node should process the message. The method further includes processing, by the first node, the message in response to determining that the message should be processed by the first node. The method further includes updating the distributed ledger to indicate that the message has been processed by the first node. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on February 01, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/886662 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10887254. The primary examiner was Viet D Vu.

Red Hat, Inc., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 2439 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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