U.S. Patent 10747201 was awarded to Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc. on August 18, 2020 and is entitled “Subscription-based services using industrial blockchains.” The first named inventor is Douglas J. Reichard of Fairview Park, OH. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Blockchain-enabled industrial devices and associated systems are configured to support the use of industrial blockchains in connection with product and machine tracking, subscription-based industrial services, device lifecycle management, and other functions. Collections of industrial devices can collectively serve as an industrial blockchain system, with multiple such systems within a supply chain yielding an industrial blockchain ecosystem. This architecture can create distributed, decentralized, tamper-proof records of manufacturing statistics for a product, a product’s history within the larger supply chain, industrial asset usage histories that can be leveraged in connection with lifecycle management, machine usage history for use in connection with subscription-based machine operation, and other such information. The blockchain-enabled industrial devices can be configured to generate multiple versions of a product or machine’s blockchain having respective different access permissions, allowing public and private industrial data to be segregated between public and private industrial blockchains. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on August 23, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/110031 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10747201. The primary examiner was Mohammad Ali.

Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 2438 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 1 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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