Blockstack Assigned Patent

Blockstack PBC, New York, NY, has been assigned a patent (10,880,076) developed by Blankstein, Aaron, Chicago, IL, Nelson, Jude, New Brunswick, NJ, Salibra, Lawrence, Hong Kong, China, and Little, Matthew, New York, NY, for a “backup of encrypted information stored off-chain in a blockchain-based decentralized storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A frontend client system and associated frontend method perform processes for backing up encrypted data in backend storage, such that a frontend client can perform the backup without exposing the encrypted data, using the client-controlled keys, and without long running server-side processes.”

The patent application was filed on August 29, 2019 (16/555,541).