U.S. Patent 11081017 was awarded to SONY CORPORATION on August 03, 2021 and is entitled “Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program.” The first named inventor is Masaaki Isozu of Tokyo, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Provided is an information processing apparatus including a processing unit configured to evaluate an evaluation target on a basis of target data regarding the evaluation target acquired from blockchain data circulated on a peer-to-peer network. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on October 12, 2016  as U.S. Patent Application 15/769149 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11081017. The primary examiner was Eddy Saint-Vil.

SONY CORPORATION, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 57152 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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