Farmobile Adds Blockchain to its Growing Patent Portfolio

By PR Web

Farmobile LLC has announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued U.S. Patent No. 10,491,608, entitled, “Distributed Transaction-Based Security and Tracking of Agricultural Machine and Agronomic Data.” Farmobile’s cutting-edge innovation harnesses the benefits of blockchain technology to ensure that Farmobile’s DataStore transactions can be tracked, immutably recorded and reliably audited.

Among other things, Farmobile’s now patented blockchain technology ensures that only authorized individuals have access to data they have personally purchased, licensed or uploaded through the Farmobile DataStore exchange.

Farmobile is the among the first to secure a patent to use blockchain in connection with ag data licensing or sales.

“This is a very big deal and a significant addition to Farmobile’s patent portfolio. It demonstrates our team’s ongoing dedication to innovation, invention and establishing protocols to guide and ensure data provenance, tracking and security for data monetization opportunities between participating farmers and a plethora of buyers who want access to these proprietary data sets,” said Jason Tatge, Farmobile CEO. “Farmers using the Farmobile Data Store exchange will now have an even more secure and more transparent way of selling their data and managing farm data licenses across multiple buyers.”