U.S. Patent 10901732 was awarded to Sprint Communications Company L.P. on January 26, 2021 and is entitled “System and method using a blockchain matrix.” The first named inventor is Lyle W. Paczkowski of Mission Hills, KS. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A method of initializing a subsystem by reading microcode from a block of a static blockchain associated to the subsystem, executing the microcode to configure the subsystem, and building event blocks associated with the subsystem using the block of the static blockchain as a genesis block of a live subsystem blockchain. The method comprises reading a block associated to a subsystem by an application executing on a processor of the subsystem, where the block associated to the subsystem is one of a plurality of blocks in a static blockchain, executing microcode of the block read by the application, based on executing the microcode, configuring the subsystem for operation, creating an event block by the application, where the event block stores information about an event generated by the subsystem operating based on the configuration, and attaching the event block to a live subsystem blockchain associated with the subsystem. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on July 10, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/508230 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10901732. The primary examiner was Brian W Wathen.

Sprint Communications Company L.P., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 3700 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 1 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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