U.S. Patent 11146594 was awarded to Seagate Technology LLC on October 12, 2021 and is entitled “Security incident blockchain.” The first named inventor is Timothy J. Courtney of Longmont, CO. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

The technology disclosed herein provides a method to use a private distributed blockchain to generate a secure encrypted record of authentication attempts for a set of distributed network attached user devices or nodes. In at least one implementation, the method includes initiating a security incident blockchain for a network comprising a plurality nodes, provisioning each the plurality of nodes in the network with a synchronous key wherein a master node has a copy of all of the synchronous keys, adding a configuration transaction to the security incident blockchain, the configuration transaction including security policies for the plurality of nodes in the network, detecting a security incident at one of the plurality of nodes in the network, and in response to the detection of the security incident, performing a security incident response in compliance with the security policies as provided in the configuration transaction. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on May 31, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/428454 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11146594. The primary examiner was Jeremiah L Avery.

Seagate Technology LLC, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 8139 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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