Blockstack Assigned Patent

Blockstack PBC, New York, NY, has been assigned a patent (10,664,451) developed by Liao, Yukan, Toronto, Canada, Little, Matthew, New York, NY, Nelson, Jude, New Brunswick, NJ, and Blankstein, Aaron, Chicago, IL, for “systems and methods for encrypting data in backend storage caches shared by multiple decentralized applications.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”In a decentralized system based on a blockchain, a storage server directs the off-chain storage of shared data for multiple decentralized applications in data caches on a backend storage provider, such that a user’s client and any authorized decentralized applications can access encrypted data in the data caches, but the storage server performs no encryption of that data and is not exposed to encryption keys and unauthorized decentralized applications cannot access the encrypted data.”

The patent application was filed on August 29, 2019 (16/555,445).