Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. has a total number of 37773 different granted patents and 23237 different inventors. The first patent on record has a date of 1976-01-06. The most recent patent has a date of 2021-12-28 (as of the date of this article).
This company is a leader in filing for blockchain patents. The most impactful blockchain patents are listed below.
Top Blockchain Patents – Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
U.S. Patent Number 10812975 is entitled ‘Methods and systems for blockchain smart contract in Hotspot 2.0 network for user authentication while roaming’ and was granted on 2020-10-20. This patent has a total of 1 citations in the United States. Link to patent overview.
U.S. Patent Number 10826704 is entitled ‘Blockchain key storage on SIM devices’ and was granted on 2020-11-03. This patent has a total of 0 citations in the United States. Link to patent overview.
U.S. Patent Number 10862859 is entitled ‘Highly available DHCP service by running DHCP servers on a blockchain network’ and was granted on 2020-12-08. This patent has a total of 0 citations in the United States. Link to patent overview.
U.S. Patent Number 11010370 is entitled ‘System and method of decentralized management of multi-owner nodes using blockchain’ and was granted on 2021-05-18. This patent has a total of 0 citations in the United States. Link to patent overview.
U.S. Patent Number 11088825 is entitled ‘Blockchain partial ledgers’ and was granted on 2021-08-10. This patent has a total of 0 citations in the United States. Link to patent overview.
U.S. Patent Number 11159391 is entitled ‘Instantiation of a telco blockchain in a NFV environment’ and was granted on 2021-10-26. This patent has a total of 0 citations in the United States. Link to patent overview.
Most Innovative Inventors
Mike Alan Holmberg, Boise, US. Total number of patents: 15.
Paul Michael Burke, Bedford, US. Total number of patents: 7.
Nataraj Kumar Gobbak, Boise, US. Total number of patents: 7.
Subbulakshmi Viswesvaran, Karnataka, IN. Total number of patents: 2.
Warner Hines, Southlake, US. Total number of patents: 2.
Conclusion
Blockchain patenting has been at full throttle since 2017 and with Bitcoin and Ethereum hitting all-time highs in 2021, Select IP has done research into which companies are now patenting in blockchain technology in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO).
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