U.S. Patent 10826682 was awarded to ServiceNow, Inc. on November 03, 2020 and is entitled “Multi-instance architecture supporting trusted blockchain-based network.” The first named inventor is Sreenevas Subramaniam of Dublin, CA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An example embodiment performed by a scoped software application executable on a computing device of a computational instance within a trust group of computational instances of a remote network management platform may involve obtaining a representation of one or more transactions involving the computational instance. The embodiment may also involve encrypting the representation, using a pre-shared key to which at least some computational instances within the trust group have access. The embodiment may also involve placing the encrypted representation into a data block that also includes: (i) a first output generated by applying a hash function to content from a previous data block of a blockchain-based transaction ledger, and (ii) a second output generated by applying the hash function to the encrypted representation and the first output. The embodiment may also involve distributing copies of the data block to blockchain-based transaction ledgers within each computational instance of the trust group. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on July 03, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/026625 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10826682. The primary examiner was Matthew Smithers.

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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