Congrats on that new patent! That’s a big accomplishment – but it’s not the finish line. To keep a utility patent active and enforceable, you need to maintain it by paying fees at specific time intervals. 🧾 Why Maintenance Fees Matter Once your utility patent is granted, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) requires…
Read more
U.S. Patent 11212075 was awarded to Nokia Technologies Oy on December 28, 2021 and is entitled “Method and apparatus for achieving a target transaction rate in a blockchain network.” The first named inventor is Anwar I. Walid of Watchung, NJ. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure: Various embodiments relate to a method…
Read more
U.S. Patent 11212076 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on December 28, 2021 and is entitled “Distributed platform for computation and trusted validation.” The first named inventor is Kush R. Varshney of Yorktown Heights, NY. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure: An example operation may include one or more of generating…
Read more
U.S. Patent 11212077 was awarded to CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC. on December 28, 2021 and is entitled “Authentication of messages sent across a network of multiple data centers.” The first named inventor is Xueqiang Ma of Sunnyvale, CA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure: The disclosure provides an approach for authenticating the contents…
Read more
U.S. Patent 11212081 was awarded to NEC CORPORATION on December 28, 2021 and is entitled “Method for signing a new block in a decentralized blockchain consensus network.” The first named inventor is Ghassan Karame of Heidelberg, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure: A method for signing a new block of a…
Read more