FedInvent™ Blockchain
Taxpayer Funded Blockchain Inventions
This page was updated on Tuesday, August 9, 2022
Blockchain Patents
Patents Granted in 2022
| US 11366915 | Zhu |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | LEDGENDD TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Ashburn, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LEDGENDD TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Ashburn, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wen Zhu (McLean, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for document authorization and distribution is provided. The method is based on a system including a repository server, communicating with or hosting a repository; a blockchain network, including a plurality of peers; and a plurality of user devices, each communicating with the repository server or the blockchain network. The repository contains a plurality of published documents. A plurality of document publication records, a plurality of document dissemination records, and an access control smart contract are distributed over the peers. The method includes: when an access request for a published document is submitted by a user from a user device, retrieving the published document; verifying the document access right; encrypting the published document with a document password encrypted using the user's public key; signing and posting a document dissemination record, including the document password; and placing the document contents and a signed document hash value in a container document. |
| GRANTED | Tuesday, June 21, 2022 |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 21, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 16/854685 |
| ART UNIT | 2494 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 16/93 (20190101) G06F 16/954 (20190101) G06F 21/602 (20130101) G06F 21/6209 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 11323489 | Panwar et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | Arrowhead Center, Inc. (Las Cruces, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arrowhead Center, Inc. (Las Cruces, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gaurav Panwar (Las Cruces, New Mexico); Roopa Vishwanathan (Las Cruces, New Mexico); Satyajayant Misra (Las Cruces, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Secure auditability of monitoring processing using public ledgers that are particularly useful for monitoring surveillance orders, whereby an overseeing enforcer (“E”) checks if law enforcement agencies and companies are respectively over-requesting or over-sharing user data beyond what is permitted by the surveillance order, in a privacy-preserving way, such that E does not know the real identities of the users being surveilled, nor does E get to read the users' unencrypted data. Embodiments of the present invention also have inbuilt checks and balances to require unsealing of surveillance orders at the appropriate times, thus enabling accounting of the surveillance operation to verify that lawful procedures were followed, protecting users from government overreach, and helping law enforcement agencies and companies demonstrate that they followed the rule of law. |
| GRANTED | Tuesday, May 3, 2022 |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 09, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 17/016139 |
| ART UNIT | 2493 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/3221 (20130101) H04L 9/3236 (20130101) H04L 51/10 (20130101) H04L 63/306 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 11303443 | Kuai et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | GBTI SOLUTION, INC. (McLean, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GBTI SOLUTIONS (McLean, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wenming Kuai (Great Falls, Virginia); Joshua Solomon Rappaport (Rockville, Maryland); Fuzhen Li (Great Falls, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of performing a blockchain transaction includes partitioning a private key of an account into a first part, a second part, and a third part, using a processor. The method further includes delivering the first part to a user of the account via a network. The method further includes storing the second part on a first server in association with information about the end-user. The method further includes receiving the first part from the user via the network. The method further includes reconstructing the private key of the account using the first part and the second part. The method further includes performing the blockchain transaction using the account and the reconstructed private key. |
| GRANTED | Tuesday, April 12, 2022 |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 12, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/681031 |
| ART UNIT | 2435 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/085 (20130101) H04L 9/321 (20130101) H04L 9/0894 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 63/145 (20130101) H04L 2209/38 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 11297500 | Jain |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | Research Foundation of the City University of New York (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Foundation of the City University of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shweta Jain (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A digital media authentication system comprises a media processing application executed by a mobile electronic device that computes a robust image hash for media data acquired by the mobile electronic device; a location attestation system that validates a location context of the media data, the location context determined in response to an object scene in a field of view of the mobile electronic device captured for conversion to the media data; and a blockchain network that maintains a ledger entry that includes the robust image hash, an immutable timestamp, and a location certificate validating the location context of the media data. |
| GRANTED | Tuesday, April 5, 2022 |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 15, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 16/849058 |
| ART UNIT | 2497 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/3236 (20130101) H04L 9/3263 (20130101) H04L 9/3297 (20130101) H04L 2209/38 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 12/02 (20130101) H04W 12/63 (20210101) H04W 12/069 (20210101) Original (OR) Class H04W 12/104 (20210101) H04W 12/106 (20210101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 11290426 | Roy |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | The Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radhika Roy (Howell, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments that pertain to an enterprise network that employs a block chain portion and a non-block chain portion. For a single transaction, a header of the transaction can be sent over the block chain network and the non-header of the transaction can be sent over the non-block chain network. A hash-based cuckoo filter can be used for communication of the header along the block chain network. |
| GRANTED | Tuesday, March 29, 2022 |
| FILED | Monday, June 17, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/442627 |
| ART UNIT | 2497 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/0643 (20130101) H04L 9/3242 (20130101) H04L 63/0414 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 63/0428 (20130101) H04L 2209/38 (20130101) H04L 2463/041 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 11271759 | Cambou |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY (Flagstaff, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bertrand F Cambou (Flagstaff, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for securing blockchain and other cryptographically signed ledgers are disclosed. Client devices with arrays of physical-unclonable-function devices are respond to challenges from a server. Characteristics of the arrays are stored by the server during a secure enrollment process. Subsequently, the server issues challenges to the clients and receives responses generated by the clients from characteristics of portions of the arrays specified by the challenges. The challenge responses are used to authenticate the clients and are also used as cryptographic private keys for signing transaction blocks. Public keys corresponding to the private keys are generated allowing signed transaction blocks to be validated as well as allowing clients originating the transactions to be authenticated by other clients. Ternary PUF characterization schemes are used to achieve acceptable authentication error rates. |
| GRANTED | Tuesday, March 8, 2022 |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 04, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/560502 |
| ART UNIT | 2431 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 7/588 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/12 (20130101) H04L 9/0643 (20130101) H04L 9/0844 (20130101) H04L 9/3278 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 2209/38 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 11257077 | Agrawal et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | Visa International Service Association (San Francisco, California); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Visa International Service Association (San Francisco, California); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shashank Agrawal (Mountain View, California); Karl Benedikt Bünz (Palo Alto, California); Mahdi Zamani (Palo Alto, California); Dan Boneh (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Blockchain-based, smart contract platforms have great promise to remove trust and add transparency to distributed applications. However, this benefit often comes at the cost of greatly reduced privacy. Techniques for implementing a privacy-preserving smart contract is described. The system can keep accounts private while not losing functionality and with only a limited performance overhead. This is achieved by building a confidential and anonymous token on top of a cryptocurrency. Multiple complex applications can also be built using the smart contract system. |
| GRANTED | Tuesday, February 22, 2022 |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/206661 |
| ART UNIT | 3685 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 20/383 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06Q 20/0658 (20130101) G06Q 20/3678 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/008 (20130101) H04L 9/0637 (20130101) H04L 9/3218 (20130101) H04L 9/3239 (20130101) H04L 2209/38 (20130101) H04L 2209/56 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 11244309 | Bentov et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Iddo Bentov (Ithaca, New York); Ari Juels (New York, New York); Fan Zhang (Ithaca, New York); Philip Daian (New York, New York); Lorenz Breidenbach (Zurich, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus in an illustrative embodiment comprises a processing platform that includes one or more processing devices each comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The processing platform is configured to communicate over at least one network with one or more additional sets of processing devices associated with at least a first blockchain-based cryptocurrency system. Each of at least a subset of the one or more processing devices of the processing platform comprises a trusted execution environment, such as a secure enclave. The processing platform is further configured to release from the trusted execution environment of a given one of the one or more processing devices of the processing platform a first blockchain transaction on the first blockchain-based cryptocurrency system, and to condition release of a second blockchain transaction relating to the first blockchain transaction on receipt of at least a specified threshold amount of evidence of confirmation of the first blockchain transaction on the first blockchain-based cryptocurrency system. |
| GRANTED | Tuesday, February 8, 2022 |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 21, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/198223 |
| ART UNIT | 3685 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 20/027 (20130101) G06Q 20/065 (20130101) G06Q 20/389 (20130101) G06Q 20/405 (20130101) G06Q 20/38215 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06Q 2220/00 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/0897 (20130101) H04L 2209/38 (20130101) H04L 2209/56 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Patents Granted from July through December 2021
| US 11153086 | Bonnell |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clayton C Bonnell (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | In some aspects, methods and systems for a digital trust architecture are provided. In some aspects, the architecture includes a user account provisioning process. The provisioning process may make use of in person verifications of some personal information to ensure authenticity of the user information. Once the authenticity of user information is established, an account may be created. The user account may include a user email account, with integrated access to digital certificates linked to the user account. Account creation may also automatically publish the new user's public key in a publicly accessible directory, enabling encrypted email information to be easily sent to the new user. |
| GRANTED | Tuesday, October 19, 2021 |
| FILED | Friday, May 31, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/428831 |
| ART UNIT | 2498 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/6245 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/006 (20130101) H04L 9/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 9/0861 (20130101) H04L 9/3239 (20130101) H04L 9/3247 (20130101) H04L 9/3268 (20130101) H04L 63/123 (20130101) H04L 63/0442 (20130101) H04L 2209/38 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 20210182244 | Kaddoura |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | ARCHITECTURE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maher N. Kaddoura (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Software generates a ledger fragment by generating a first block having first data in a first record data field, a nonce value in a first previous block pointer field, and a first hash in a first hash field. Generating the ledger fragment also includes generating a second block having second data in a second record data field, the first hash in a second previous block pointer field, and a second hash in a second hash field. The ledger fragment is appended to a main ledger with a linking block. The linking block is positioned between the first block of the ledger fragment and an end block of the main ledger. The linking block includes a third hash from the end block in a fourth previous block pointer field and the nonce value in a fourth hash field. The linking block is signed by a plurality of voting peers. |
| PUBLISHED | Thursday, June 17, 2021 |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 17/039323 |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 16/1834 (20190101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 11099539 | Fuhr et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter L. Fuhr (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Marissa E. Morales-Rodriguez (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Sterling S. Rooke (Crofton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus, methods, and systems implementing multi-sensor agent devices are described herein. The agent devices can each include a plurality of sensors for measuring parameters of interest to an entity such as an electric power utility. The sensors can be organized in individually-IP-addressable sensor clusters, with each sensor cluster including an associated microcontroller. The agent devices can be controlled by a control center of the entity to operate in a coordinated manner, such as to gather and transmit data regarding parameters of interest. The agent devices can be transported to desired areas for data collection by unmanned aerial systems such as drones, and the collected data can be stored in a distributed blockchain ledger. |
| GRANTED | Tuesday, August 24, 2021 |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 07, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/405855 |
| ART UNIT | 2457 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 39/024 (20130101) B64C 2201/027 (20130101) B64C 2201/127 (20130101) B64C 2201/128 (20130101) Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 47/08 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 19/0423 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/602 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/166 (20130101) H04L 63/0428 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 11063759 | Kocsis et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | Jin Kocsis (Aurora, Ohio); Yifu Wu (Akron, Ohio); Gihan Janith Mendis Imbulgoda Liyangahawatte (Akron, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Akron (Akron, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin Kocsis (Aurora, Ohio); Yifu Wu (Akron, Ohio); Gihan Janith Mendis Imbulgoda Liyangahawatte (Akron, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | In various embodiments, the present invention is directed to a decentralized and secure method for developing machine learning models using homomorphic encryption and blockchain smart contracts technology to realize a secure, decentralized system and privacy-preserving computing system incentivizes the sharing of private data or at least the sharing of resultant machine learning models from the analysis of private data. In various embodiments, the method uses a homomorphic encryption (HE)-based encryption interface designed to ensure the security and the privacy-preservation of the shared learning models, while minimizing the computation overhead for performing calculation on the encrypted domain and, at the same time, ensuring the accuracy of the quantitative verifications obtained by the verification contributors in the cipherspace. |
| GRANTED | Tuesday, July 13, 2021 |
| FILED | Monday, April 29, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/397513 |
| ART UNIT | 2434 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 20/00 (20190101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/008 (20130101) H04L 9/321 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 63/0442 (20130101) H04L 2209/38 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Blockchain Patent Applications
Pre-Grant Patent Applications Published in 2022
| US 20220286845 | Vanoss et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California); Avian, Inc. (Lexington Park, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent M. Vanoss (Leonardtown, Maryland); Faranak Nekoogar (San Ramon, California); Farid U. Dowla (Castro Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A networking architecture that incorporates the security of Blockchain distributed ledgers as an authentication layer, while connecting mesh nodes using secure, pulse-based wide-band and ultra wide-band communication technology to provide a nearly undetectable, unbreakable, and dynamic wireless communication mesh architecture that can securely transmit data, voice and video over short ranges, in one embodiment, up to 1 Km, is disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 29, 2021 |
| APPL NO | 17/244763 |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/3236 (20130101) H04L 9/3271 (20130101) H04L 2209/38 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 12/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 20220179378 | Gourisetti et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sri Nikhil Gupta Gourisetti (Richland, Washington); Steven E. Widergren (Kennewick, Washington); Michael E. Mylrea (Alexandria, Virginia); David J. Sebastian Cardenas (Pullman, Washington); Mark I. Borkum (Richland, Washington); Bishnu P. Bhattarai (Kennewick, Washington); Peng Wang (Billerica, Massachusetts); Alysha M. Randall (West Richland, Washington); Hayden M. Reeve (Indianola, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | This document describes techniques, apparatuses, and systems for a blockchain-based transactive energy system. A blockchain-based transactive energy system receives a bid associated with a supply/demand curve of a utility from a transactive node through a smart contract. A universal identifier associated with the bid may be verified by consensus nodes of the blockchain-based transactive energy system to determine a verified set of bids. The universal identifier or other data associated with the bid may be stored in an immutable database provided by a blockchain. Based on the verified set of bids, a market-clearing price of the utility may be determined and used to satisfy the bid of the transactive node according to an actual production or consumption of the utility by the transactive node. The actual production or consumption of the utility may be stored in the immutable database for future audits or verification. |
| PUBLISHED | Thursday, June 9, 2022 |
| FILED | Monday, November 29, 2021 |
| APPL NO | 17/537231 |
| CURRENT CPC | Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 19/042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G05B 2219/2639 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 20220122206 | Cali et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | EnergyXchain, LLC (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | |
| INVENTOR(S) | Umit Cali (Kassel Hesse, Germany); David A. Doctor (Huntersville, North Carolina); Robert W. Norris (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for originating and monitoring energy transactions using distributed ledger technology are provided. In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes receiving a first request to originate a contract associated with an energy transaction. The first request may include a first draft of the contract. A first transaction may be generated based on the first draft of the contract and may be added to a distributed ledger. Transaction information regarding the energy transaction may be received and a second draft of the contract may be generated based on the transaction information. A second transaction may be generated based on the second draft of the contract and may be added to the distributed ledger. |
| PUBLISHED | Thursday, April 21, 2022 |
| FILED | Thursday, December 30, 2021 |
| APPL NO | 17/565998 |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 1/3203 (20130101) Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 20/389 (20130101) G06Q 40/04 (20130101) G06Q 50/06 (20130101) G06Q 50/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 3/008 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 20220122199 | Cali et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | EnergyXchain, LLC (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | |
| INVENTOR(S) | Umit Cali (Kassel Hesse, Germany); David A. Doctor (Huntersville, North Carolina); Robert W. Norris (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for improved creation, monitoring, and updating of energy transactions are provided. In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes receiving a request to originate a contract for an energy transaction. Transaction information concerning the energy transaction may be received and may identify a type of energy resource and parties for the energy transaction. A requirement for the energy transaction may be identified within the contract codex and at least one condition may be determined based on the requirement. An updated contract may be generated by adding the at least one condition to the contract. Information regarding the updated contract may be stored on the distributed ledger. |
| PUBLISHED | Thursday, April 21, 2022 |
| FILED | Thursday, December 30, 2021 |
| APPL NO | 17/565865 |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 16/2379 (20190101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 7/005 (20130101) Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 50/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 20220076262 | Boyd et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel A. Boyd (Arlington, Virginia); Kelli L. Biegger (McLean, Virginia); Chang Ellison (Arlington, Virginia); Jason Lim (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for verifying an identity of an individual as a first party via a first party system by a second party system comprises: sending a request for identification information of the first party; receiving first party information associated with a mobile identification credential (MIC) which the first party system received from an authorizing party system (APS) before the second party system sends the request for identification information of the first party to the first party system, the first party having consented to release the first party information to the second party system, and the first party information having been verified by the APS before the APS sends the MIC to the first party system; using the verified first party information associated with the MIC to verify or not verify an identity of the first party; verifying the identity of the first party before providing services to the first party. |
| PUBLISHED | Thursday, March 10, 2022 |
| FILED | Friday, November 19, 2021 |
| APPL NO | 17/531194 |
| CURRENT CPC | Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 20/065 (20130101) G06Q 20/409 (20130101) G06Q 20/3827 (20130101) G06Q 20/4014 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06Q 20/38215 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 20220068501 | Gholami et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | Autonomous Healthcare, Inc. (Hoboken, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | |
| INVENTOR(S) | Behnood Gholami (Hoboken, New Jersey); Amir Avnit (New Haven, Connecticut); Deepak Khemraj (South Ozone Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure describes a system, apparatus, and method involving immutable databases such as blockchains to track and document transportation and administration of sensitive medications and identify potential cases of drug diversion. The disclosed invention uses a transaction recording module to scan unique tags for sensitive medications packs during the transport process. The invention also comprises an image and video capture module, an immutable database, a computation engine, a graphical user interface, and a notification module. |
| PUBLISHED | Thursday, March 3, 2022 |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 01, 2021 |
| APPL NO | 17/463851 |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/32 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 20/00 (20190101) Healthcare Informatics, i.e Information and Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted for the Handling or Processing of Medical or Healthcare Data G16H 20/10 (20180101) G16H 70/40 (20180101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 20220046027 | Klarman et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | |
| INVENTOR(S) | Uri Klarman (Evanston, Illinois); Marcel Flores (Los Angeles, California); Aleksandar Kuzmanovic (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A system to generate a web index includes a computing device having a processor and a memory operatively coupled to the memory. The computing device is configured to access a plurality of webpages through a network along a directed route. The computing device is also configured to generate an index corresponding to the plurality of webpages. The computing device is further configured to distribute a digest corresponding to the index to one or more additional computing devices in the network. |
| PUBLISHED | Thursday, February 10, 2022 |
| FILED | Monday, October 07, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 17/281512 |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/3239 (20130101) H04L 63/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 2209/38 (20130101) H04L 2209/56 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 20220030031 | KOCSIS et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | Jin KOCSIS (Lafayette, Indiana); Mututhanthrige Praveen Sameera FERNANDO (Akron, Ohio); Yifu WU (Akron, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Akron (Akron, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin KOCSIS (Lafayette, Indiana); Mututhanthrige Praveen Sameera FERNANDO (Akron, Ohio); Yifu WU (Akron, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | In one or more embodiments, the present invention is directed to a blockchain secured, software-defined network and monitoring system comprising: a multi-controller software-defined network (SDN) network layer; a blockchain based security and autonomy layer; a deep learning-driven decision making layer comprising the one or more computational centers and a horizontal data plane layer. In some embodiments, the present invention is directed to methods for ensuring the integrity of a control commands and optimizing performance and security using the blockchain secured, software-defined network and monitoring system. In various embodiments, the present invention relates to methods for extracting useful features from said labelled and non-labelled data contained in the horizontal data plane layer in the blockchain secured, software-defined network and monitoring system using a knowledge domain-enabled hybrid semi-supervision learning method. |
| PUBLISHED | Thursday, January 1, 2022 |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 19, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 17/297270 |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/64 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/3236 (20130101) H04L 9/3297 (20130101) H04L 41/20 (20130101) H04L 63/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 2209/38 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 20220012367 | Ramanan et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paritosh P. Ramanan (Atlanta, Georgia); Nagi Z. Gebraeel (Marietta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | An exemplary blockchain-based decentralized computing system and method are disclosed for industrial analytics applications. The exemplary system and method leverage blockchain technology to deliver and execute privacy-preserving decentralized predictive analytics, machine learning, and optimization operations for various industrial applications using a set of self-contained analytics block smart contracts that can be readily utilized and in analytics applications to deploy across multiple sites. |
| PUBLISHED | Thursday, January 13, 2022 |
| FILED | Friday, July 09, 2021 |
| APPL NO | 17/372064 |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/41 (20130101) G06F 11/3688 (20130101) G06F 16/27 (20190101) G06F 16/2379 (20190101) G06F 21/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/08 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Pre-Grant Patent Applications Published From June to December 2021
| US 20210397655 | Zhao |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | Cleveland State University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wenbing Zhao (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a system and method for processing data using blockchain technology. The system includes a memory having programmable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause the system to: authenticate one or more sensors in anticipation of receiving component data; receive component data, upon successful authentication; store the component data locally or to a cloud-based server and/or calculate a root value for the component data; store or embed the root value with the stored component data; condense the component data and link the condensed component data to the stored component data via the root value. The system further includes instructions to log the condensed data, including the root value, to a ledger, and to identify a tag or transaction id corresponding to the logging event for subsequent retrieval of the condensed data using the tag or transaction id. |
| PUBLISHED | Thursday, December 23, 2021 |
| FILED | Thursday, March 11, 2021 |
| APPL NO | 17/199345 |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 16/1805 (20190101) G06F 16/90335 (20190101) Original (OR) Class G06F 21/44 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 20210326464 | ZHU |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | NIRA, INC. (McLean, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wen ZHU (McLean, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for document authorization and distribution is provided. The method is based on a system including a repository server, communicating with or hosting a repository; a blockchain network, including a plurality of peers; and a plurality of user devices, each communicating with the repository server or the blockchain network. The repository contains a plurality of published documents. A plurality of document publication records, a plurality of document dissemination records, and an access control smart contract are distributed over the peers. The method includes: when an access request for a published document is submitted by a user from a user device, retrieving the published document; verifying the document access right; encrypting the published document with a document password encrypted using the user's public key; signing and posting a document dissemination record, including the document password; and placing the document contents and a signed document hash value in a container document. |
| PUBLISHED | Thursday, October 21, 2021 |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 21, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 16/854685 |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 16/93 (20190101) G06F 16/954 (20190101) G06F 21/602 (20130101) G06F 21/6209 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 20210273806 | Wilson et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | Tenet 3, LLC (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tenet 3, LLC (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kelce S. Wilson (Murphy, Texas); Jeff A. Hughes (Dayton, Ohio); Tyler J. Moody (Fairborn, Ohio); Derek E. Doran (Hilliard, Ohio); Gary R. Tuttle (Middletown, Ohio); Joel B. Rieman (Xenia, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A permissioned blockchain, using off-chain storage, provides advantages over blockchains that rely on consensus and/or store information within the blockchain. Advantages include enhanced viability, compactness, and the ability to register material with distribution limitations (e.g., military classified). Examples create an immutable public record of data signatures that confirm when data is intact, without distributing the data itself, so that widespread availability of the blockchain (beyond those privileged to see the data) advantageously increases the size of the community that is able to detect spoofing or forgery attempts. A permissioning entity limits submissions to manage blockchain growth, foreclosing problematic material that may risk long-term viability. Examples render blockchain operations resistant to advanced persistent threats (APTs), leverage digital signatures as additional trust elements for high-risk data, link records to track pedigree and enable identification of superseded (obsolete) data, and leverage out-of-band date proof to enable independent verification of integrity and no-later-than data-of-existence. |
| PUBLISHED | Thursday, September 2, 2021 |
| FILED | Thursday, December 31, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 17/139672 |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/0643 (20130101) H04L 9/3218 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 9/3247 (20130101) H04L 2209/38 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 20210271778 | Wilson et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | Tenet 3, LLC (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tenet 3, LLC (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kelce S. Wilson (Murphy, Texas); Jeff A. Hughes (Dayton, Ohio); Tyler J. Moody (Fairborn, Ohio); Derek E. Doran (Hilliard, Ohio); Gary R. Tuttle (Middletown, Ohio); Joel B. Rieman (Xenia, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A permissioned blockchain, using off-chain storage, provides advantages over blockchains that rely on consensus and/or store information within the blockchain. Advantages include enhanced viability, compactness, and the ability to register material with distribution limitations (e.g., military classified). Examples create an immutable public record of data signatures that confirm when data is intact, without distributing the data itself, so that widespread availability of the blockchain (beyond those privileged to see the data) advantageously increases the size of the community that is able to detect spoofing or forgery attempts. A permissioning entity limits submissions to manage blockchain growth, foreclosing problematic material that may risk long-term viability. Examples render blockchain operations resistant to advanced persistent threats (APTs), leverage digital signatures as additional trust elements for high-risk data, link records to track pedigree and enable identification of superseded (obsolete) data, and leverage out-of-band date proof to enable independent verification of integrity and no-later-than data-of-existence. |
| PUBLISHED | Thursday, September 2, 2021 |
| FILED | Thursday, December 31, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 17/139633 |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/3239 (20130101) H04L 9/3247 (20130101) H04L 63/1483 (20130101) H04L 2209/38 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 20210256635 | Cali et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | EnergyXchain, LLC (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | |
| INVENTOR(S) | Umit Cali (Kassel Hesse, Germany); David A. Doctor (Huntersville, North Carolina); Robert W. Norris (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for improved creation, monitoring, and updating of energy transactions are provided. In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes receiving a request to originate a contract for an energy transaction. Transaction information concerning the energy transaction may be received and may identify a type of energy resource and parties for the energy transaction. A requirement for the energy transaction may be identified within the contract codex and at least one condition may be determined based on the requirement. An updated contract may be generated by adding the at least one condition to the contract. Information regarding the updated contract may be stored on the distributed ledger. |
| PUBLISHED | Thursday, August 19, 2021 |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 17, 2021 |
| APPL NO | 17/178028 |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 16/2379 (20190101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 7/005 (20130101) Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 50/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 20210232707 | Wilson et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | Tenet 3, LLC (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tenet 3, LLC (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kelce S. Wilson (Murphy, Texas); Jeff A. Hughes (Dayton, Ohio); Tyler J. Moody (Fairborn, Ohio); Derek E. Doran (Hilliard, Ohio); Gary R. Tuttle (Middletown, Ohio); Joel B. Rieman (Xenia, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A permissioned blockchain, using off-chain storage, provides advantages over blockchains that rely on consensus and/or store information within the blockchain. Advantages include enhanced viability, compactness, and the ability to register material with distribution limitations (e.g., military classified). Examples create an immutable public record of data signatures that confirm when data is intact, without distributing the data itself, so that widespread availability of the blockchain (beyond those privileged to see the data) advantageously increases the size of the community that is able to detect spoofing or forgery attempts. A permissioning entity limits submissions to manage blockchain growth, foreclosing problematic material that may risk long-term viability. Examples render blockchain operations resistant to advanced persistent threats (APTs), leverage digital signatures as additional trust elements for high-risk data, link records to track pedigree and enable identification of superseded (obsolete) data, and leverage out-of-band date proof to enable independent verification of integrity and no-later-than data-of-existence. |
| PUBLISHED | Thursday, July 29, 2021 |
| FILED | Thursday, December 31, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 17/139694 |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/3239 (20130101) H04L 9/3247 (20130101) H04L 2209/38 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 20210168238 | Adolphe et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | Forward Edge AI, Inc. (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Adolphe (San Antonio, Texas); JESSE CAI (MCLEAN, Virginia); KARTHIK PRASANNA MAIYA (CHANTILLY, Virginia); HONGYI GUAN (HERNDON, Virginia); BEN SISKO ADOLPHE (SAN ANTONIO, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An innovative method is implemented to determine a robocall and blocks the incoming communication deemed to be a robocall. The method leverages blockchain's shared storage, memory, and ability to transact all information across a network and independently verified and stored on the immutable blockchain. The method takes advantage high-speed cellular network to process each communication with high-speed. Further, the method integrates blockchain encryption, swarm intelligence (SI), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms, a telecommunication expert knowledge graph (TEKG), and real-time parsing of records to block robocalls and reduce connection delays. All modules can evolve and update themselves with each use of the present invention through various SI, AI, and ML technologies. Additionally, the method includes a localized call-filtering feature based on state and federal laws to ensure the blocking of calls that are prohibited by either federal or state governments thereby facilitating recovery of damages. |
| PUBLISHED | Thursday, June 3, 2021 |
| FILED | Thursday, December 03, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 17/110688 |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/06 (20130101) H04L 2209/38 (20130101) Telephonic Communication H04M 3/436 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04M 2203/6027 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 12/12 (20130101) H04W 12/00514 (20190101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
THE FEDINVENT BLOCKCHAIN DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, July 26, 2022.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
GRANTED OR PUBLISHED
The date of the patent was granted to the date the patent application was published including the day of the week. Patents are granted on Tuesday. Applications are published on Thursday.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.
HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2022/fedinvent-patents-20220726.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
Download a copy of the How To Use This Page