U.S. Patent 10666446 was awarded to Xage Security, Inc. on May 26, 2020 and is entitled “Decentralized enrollment and revocation of devices.” The first named inventor is Roman M. Arutyunov of San Jose, CA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises, receiving, at a first server, a plurality of certificates and an inventory list and storing the plurality of certificates and the inventory list in a blockchain; receiving, at a second server associated with the blockchain, a validation request from a device and validating the device; in response to validating the device, receiving, at the second server, a certificate request from the device and verifying the certificate request against the inventory list stored in the blockchain; and in response to verifying the certificate request, enrolling the device by sending a certificate from the plurality of certificates stored in the blockchain to the device. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on November 15, 2017  as U.S. Patent Application 15/813493 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10666446. The primary examiner was Joseph P Hirl.

Xage Security, Inc., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 18 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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