U.S. Patent 10805085 was awarded on 2020-10-13 and describes a “PKI-based user authentication for web services using blockchain.” This blockchain patent has been cited 9 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. The abstract states:

Methods, systems, storage media for authentication are described. On the methods includes receiving, at a smart contract on a distributed ledger, a signed authentication challenge. The method includes verifying the identity of the user who signed authentication challenge. The method includes raising an event that indicates that the user has been authenticated; wherein a server listens for events from the smart contract, and associates a session between the browser and the server with the user based on the event. Link to Full Patent

This patent was originally filed on 2017-08-24 which gives it an average processing time in the field. UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION (USAA) has 1657 total patents. The first named inventor is Minya Liang of Redmond, WA. The primary examiner was Alexander Lagor.

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