Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. has a total number of 1064 different granted patents and 1501 different inventors. The first patent on record has a date of 1979-10-23. 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 – Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

U.S. Patent Number 10419209 is entitled ‘Parallel assurance of blockchain signatures’ and was granted on 2019-09-17. This patent has a total of 9 citations in the United States. Link to patent overview. 

U.S. Patent Number 10805067 is entitled ‘Doubly linked blockchain’ and was granted on 2020-10-13. This patent has a total of 4 citations in the United States. Link to patent overview. 

U.S. Patent Number 10747609 is entitled ‘Systems and methods for blockchain repair assurance tokens’ and was granted on 2020-08-18. This patent has a total of 2 citations in the United States. Link to patent overview. 

U.S. Patent Number 10871948 is entitled ‘Smart contract blockchain abstraction API’ and was granted on 2020-12-22. This patent has a total of 2 citations in the United States. Link to patent overview. 

U.S. Patent Number 10868668 is entitled ‘Parallel assurance of blockchain signatures’ and was granted on 2020-12-15. This patent has a total of 0 citations in the United States. Link to patent overview. 

U.S. Patent Number 11074648 is entitled ‘Blockchain based loan securitization’ and was granted on 2021-07-27. This patent has a total of 0 citations in the United States. Link to patent overview. 

U.S. Patent Number 11153097 is entitled ‘Systems and methods for distributed extensible blockchain structures’ and was granted on 2021-10-19. This patent has a total of 0 citations in the United States. Link to patent overview. 

Most Innovative Inventors

Phillip H. Griffin, Raleigh, US. Total number of patents: 47.

Ramanathan Ramanathan, Bellevue, US. Total number of patents: 37.

Jeffrey J. Stapleton, O’Fallon, US. Total number of patents: 34.

Rameshchandra Bhaskar Ketharaju, Hyderabad, IN. Total number of patents: 24.

David Newman, Walnut Creek, US. Total number of patents: 9.

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).

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. is an early player in the blockchain patent space. To help our clients develop their intellectual propery and avoid the risk of potentially infringing any patents, Select Patents provides our clients a variety of services. We want our clients to develop an effective and efficient patent protection strategy. These services include:

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