U.S. Patent 10513077 was awarded to Walmart Apollo, LLC on December 24, 2019 and is entitled “System and methods for three dimensional printing with blockchain controls.” The first named inventor is Todd D. Mattingly of Bentonville, AR. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Described in detail herein is a blockchain license storage system. A computing system can receive instructions to fabricate a three-dimensional physical object from a mobile device. The instructions can include a design of the three-dimensional physical object. The computing system can control a printing device to fabricate the at least one three-dimensional physical object based on the design of the at least one three-dimensional physical object. The computing system can generate a license file for the design of the at least one three-dimensional physical object. The computing system can generate a cryptographically verifiable ledger represented by a sequence of blocks. One of the blocks in the sequence of blocks can store transactional records associated with the generated license. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on March 06, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/913382 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10513077. The primary examiner was Ziaul Karim.

Walmart Apollo, LLC, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 1180 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 2 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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