U.S. Patent 11070632 was awarded to ServiceNow, Inc. on July 20, 2021 and is entitled “Identifying computing devices in a managed network that are involved in blockchain-based mining.” The first named inventor is Asaf Garty of Hemed, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An example embodiment relates to discovering computing devices in a managed network that are involved in blockchain-based mining. The example embodiment may involve a proxy server application that is disposed within the managed network, controlled by a remote network management platform, and configured to: provide, to a computing device disposed within the managed network, one or more instructions to identify one or more applications executing on the computing device; determine, for an application of the one or more applications that were identified, a command string used to invoke the application to execute on the computing device; compare the command string to a plurality of identifiers indicative of blockchain-based mining; determine that the command string includes an identifier from the plurality of identifiers indicative of blockchain-based mining; and based on determining that the command string includes the identifier, store, in a database, an indication that the application is associated with blockchain-based mining. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on October 17, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/163240 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11070632. The assistant examiner was Julian Chang.

ServiceNow, Inc., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 551 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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