U.S. Patent 11128463 was awarded to THE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES on September 21, 2021 and is entitled “Cost-efficient IOT forensics framework with blockchain.” The first named inventor is Michael David Thompson of Waukesha, WI. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A cost-effective and reliable digital forensics framework is provided by exploiting multiple blockchain networks in two levels. The selected data collected from sensors on a boat is sent to a remote company database and calculated hash of the data is saved in two blockchain platforms in the first level. Hash of each block is retrieved and inserted onto a Merkle tree on a periodic basis to be stored on another blockchain in the second level which is used to detect any error in the first level blockchains. A secure platform is created with the combination of several blockchains. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on March 29, 2021  as U.S. Patent Application 17/215467 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11128463. The primary examiner was Jeremiah L Avery.

THE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 323 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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