U.S. Patent 11063759 was awarded to University of Akron on July 13, 2021 and is entitled “Blockchain-empowered crowdsourced computing system.” The first named inventor is Yifu Wu of Naperville, IL. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

In various embodiments, the present invention is directed to a decentralized and secure method for developing machine learning models using homomorphic encryption and blockchain smart contracts technology to realize a secure, decentralized system and privacy-preserving computing system incentivizes the sharing of private data or at least the sharing of resultant machine learning models from the analysis of private data. In various embodiments, the method uses a homomorphic encryption (HE)-based encryption interface designed to ensure the security and the privacy-preservation of the shared learning models, while minimizing the computation overhead for performing calculation on the encrypted domain and, at the same time, ensuring the accuracy of the quantitative verifications obtained by the verification contributors in the cipherspace. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on April 29, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/397513 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11063759. The assistant examiner was Aubrey H Wyszynski.

University of Akron, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 589 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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