U.S. Patent 11177962 was awarded to VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION on November 16, 2021 and is entitled “Optimizations for verification of interactions system and method.” The first named inventor is Mahdi Zamani of Palo Alto, CA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

The method comprises a client device receiving a verification request comprising an interaction identifier. The client device can compare samplings of block headers received from two or more full nodes. The client device can then, based on the comparing, verify at least one block header of the samplings of block headers. The client device can determine that a blockchain maintained by at least one of the two or more full nodes is valid in response to verifying the at least one block header of the samplings of block headers. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on November 25, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/694626 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11177962. The primary examiner was Harunur Rashid.

VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 1320 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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