U.S. Patent 11121872 was awarded to ZeroNorth, Inc. on September 14, 2021 and is entitled “Trusted verification of cybersecurity remediation.” The first named inventor is Ernesto DiGiambattista of Lynnfield, MA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Event metadata may be received at an audit function of an orchestration system for an infrastructure change event associated with an infrastructure change to an enterprise infrastructure of an enterprise. A blockchain instance of a particular decentralized secure ledger is requested from a decentralized secure ledger service via the audit function. A user identifier of a user that is responsible for the infrastructure change event is provided to the decentralized secure ledger service by the audit function. In response to the decentralized secure ledger service authenticating the user identifier, the event metadata for the infrastructure change event is sent to the blockchain instance for storage with the decentralized secure ledger service by the audit function. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on January 22, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/253944 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11121872. The primary examiner was Aravind K Moorthy.

ZeroNorth, Inc., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 2 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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