U.S. Patent 11128472 was awarded to Red Hat, Inc. on September 21, 2021 and is entitled “Signature verification using blockchain.” The first named inventor is Bruno Ciscato of Farnborough, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A package management system generates a signature for a software package and generates an indication of the signature that includes a Merkle Tree root. The package management system then initiates a transaction in a blockchain system. The transaction comprises an indication of the signature for the software package and is to be stored in a blockchain. The package management system distributes the software package to a computing device with an indication of a location of the signature in the blockchain. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on September 04, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/120786 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11128472. The primary examiner was Alexander Lagor.

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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