U.S. Patent 9870508 was awarded to Unveiled Labs, Inc. on January 16, 2018 and is entitled “Securely authenticating a recording file from initial collection through post-production and distribution.” The first named inventor is Shamir ALLIBHAI of San Francisco, CA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

The technology disclosed relates to data captured in streams from sensors. Streams often are edited, especially video and audio data streams. In particular, the technology disclosed facilitates identification of segments of an originally captured stream that find their way into a finally edited stream and identification of changed segments in the finally edited stream. Summary analysis on self-aligned meta-blocks of stream data is described, along with pushing at least some self-aligned meta-hashes into a blockchain network, applying an alignment and hashing procedure described in a smart contract. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on June 01, 2017  as U.S. Patent Application 15/611739 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 9870508. The primary examiner was William Tran.

Unveiled Labs, Inc., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 1 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 22 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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