U.S. Patent 11087591 was awarded to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. on August 10, 2021 and is entitled “Anti-fraud cloud gaming blockchain.” The first named inventor is Bryan Cotta of San Mateo, CA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A method includes: processing a request to execute a purchase transaction for a virtual asset of a video game, to transfer ownership of the virtual asset from a first user account to a second user account, to transfer an amount of virtual currency from the second user account to the first user account; responsive to the request, accessing a blockchain to perform an anti-fraud verification, including analyzing data of a prior transaction involving the virtual asset that is stored to the blockchain; responsive to the anti-fraud verification providing a result that does not indicate fraudulent activity, then generating transaction data based on an identifier for the first user account, an identifier for the second user account, an identifier for the virtual asset, and the amount of virtual currency, and submitting the transaction data to a node network, to write the transaction data to a block of the blockchain. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on December 20, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/228452 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11087591. The primary examiner was Scott C Anderson.

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 1650 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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