U.S. Patent 11184151 was awarded to SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT on November 23, 2021 and is entitled “Devices for providing a set of cryptographically secured and filtered and sorted transaction data sets of a block of a blockchain.” The first named inventor is Rainer Falk of Poing, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Apparatuses for a set of cryptographically protected and filtered and also sorted transaction data records of a link of a blockchain and to a method for forming a set of the sorted transaction data records is provided. One aspect is an apparatus for providing a set of cryptographically protected and filtered transaction data records from a set of integrity-checked and semantically sorted transaction data records of a link of a blockchain, which link is formed in particular using the method of providing at least one such link of a blockchain and coupling to a filtering device that ascertains the set of filtered transaction data records from the set of checked and semantically sorted transaction data records of the blockchain by using a filter criterion, and outputting the ascertained set of filtered transaction data records. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on July 09, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/639842 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11184151. The primary examiner was Eliyah S. Harper.

SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 31086 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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