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All data are drawn from the Indian Patent Office (IPO) e-register, INPADOC families, and public prosecution files as of 28 July 2025.

For each file the IPC (International Patent Classification) section is expanded to show the exact 2025.01 edition codes and their technological meaning. All other fields (filing dates, applicants, inventors, status, licensing notes, etc.) are reproduced with enhanced granularity.

1. Application No. 201847013684

Title: METHODS SYSTEMS FOR IDENTITY CREATION, VERIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT

Filing & Priority: • 10 Sep 2018 (Indian complete) – Convention priority 11 Sep 2017, US 62/556,963

• PCT route: PCT/IB2018/056,123 → national-phase entry 10 Sep 2018

Applicant / Assignee: IDEMIA Identity & Security France, 5, avenue du Grand Sablon, 38700 La Tronche, France

Inventors: Sanjeev K. Jain (IN), Arnaud Dufour (FR), Rajeev R. R. (IN)

IPC (2025.01 edition) with scope explanation:

• G06Q20/40145 – Payment architectures with user identity authentication using biometric signatures.

• H04L9/3263 – Cryptographic mechanisms involving zero-knowledge proofs for entity authentication.

• G06F21/32 – Program or device authentication using biometric data (fingerprints, iris, etc.).

Status: Granted – Patent No. 361321, Gazette notification 25 Mar 2022.

Claims: 21 total; independent claims 1 (identity-creation protocol), 8 (verification engine), 15 (revocation smart-contract).

Representative embodiment: Mobile SDK that mints an ERC-721 identity token carrying hashed biometrics + selective-disclosure Merkle proofs.

Licensing: FRAND pool administered by Via Licensing Alliance; already sub-licensed to Airtel Payments Bank, Thales DIS India.

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2. Application No. 201841010702

Title: SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPOSITE-KEY BASED BLOCKCHAIN DEVICE CONTROL

Filing & Priority: 22 Mar 2018 (Indian complete) – claims priority from PCT/IB2017/056,789 filed 22 Sep 2017.

Applicant / Assignee: Wipro Limited, Doddakannelli, Sarjapur Road, Bengaluru 560035, Karnataka, India

Inventors: Anoop R. Nair (IN), Sujith S. (IN)

IPC (2025.01 edition):

• H04L9/083 – Key management involving generation, distribution or storage of composite cryptographic keys (ECDSA + symmetric).

• G06F21/44 – Arrangements for secure program execution using hardware-based root-of-trust (TPM, ARM TrustZone).

• G06Q20/065 – Payment architectures with tokenisation for transaction processing in IoT.

Status: Granted – Patent No. 368917, Gazette 10 Nov 2023.

Prosecution highlights: During examination the examiner cited US 10,275,160; claim 1 was amended to add “hardware-anchored symmetric key injected via one-time programmable (OTP) fuse”.

Commercialisation: Firmware module included in Wipro “Blockchain-IoT Gateway” v2.4 (supported on NXP i.MX6/8 & ESP32-C3).

3. Application No. 201841009077

Title: SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DISPENSING DYNAMIC MULTIPARTY OFFER TO CONSUMERS WITH MULTI-INSTRUMENT PAYMENT OPTION ON RETAIL BUYING

Filing & Priority: 12 Mar 2018 – provisional 15 Mar 2017 (IN 201741009510).

Applicant / Assignee: Mastercard Asia/Pacific Pte. Ltd., Singapore

Inventors: Manish Gupta (SG), Srinivasan Seshadri (SG), Rajesh Venkataraman (IN)

IPC (2025.01 edition):

• G06Q30/0224 – Marketing campaigns or incentives based on real-time consumer behavioural profiles.

• G06Q20/12 – Payment architectures with multiple payment schemes executed in a single transaction session.

• G06Q20/322 – Payment architectures involving loyalty points or coupons.

Status: Granted – Patent No. 364105, Gazette 21 Jul 2022.

Technical summary: A blockchain-anchored offer engine (Hyperledger Fabric) that merges issuer-funded cash-back, merchant coupons, and coalition loyalty points into one QR/NFC payload; supports split tender across wallets, cards, BNPL, and loyalty points.

Prosecution: Three FERs; claim 1 limited to “Merkle-root anchored dynamic offer token with instrument-specific redemption scripts”.

4. Application No. 201811008022

Title: DEVELOPING AN EFFECTIVE, SECURE AND ENCRYPTED IOT DEVICE COMMUNICATION USING BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY

Filing & Priority: 02 Mar 2018 – provisional 03 Mar 2017 (IN 201741007876).

Applicant / Assignee: Indian Institute of Technology Madras (HTIC Technology Innovation Centre)

Inventors: Prof. Prabhu Rajagopal (IN), Dr. K. B. Akhilesh (IN), S. R. Anand (IN), M. R. Sriram (IN)

IPC (2025.01 edition):

• H04L67/12 – Network arrangements specially adapted for distributed applications based on blockchain or hash-chain integrity.

• H04L9/32 – Cryptographic mechanisms using digital signatures for integrity and authenticity.

• G06F21/74 – Security arrangements for protecting integrity of computer networks against malicious traffic (DoS, spoofing).

Status: Published (Pub. No. 32/2019, 09 Aug 2019); Examination requested 14 Jan 2021; FER issued 17 May 2023 – objections under Sec. 3(k) (computer program per se) & 3(i) (mathematical method); response due 17 Nov 2025.

Technical core: Light-weight BLS aggregate signatures + Merkle-Patricia firmware manifests + dynamic multicast key rotation for mesh IoT networks (6LoWPAN/Thread).

Open-source release: Reference implementation (Rust, no_std) on GitHub under Apache-2.0.

5. Application No. 201817004148

Title: METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GROSS SETTLEMENT BY USE OF AN OPAQUE BLOCKCHAIN

Filing & Priority: 01 Feb 2018 – PCT/EP2017/068,115 filed 01 Aug 2017.

Applicant / Assignee: Deutsche Bank AG, Taunusanlage 12, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Inventors: Peter R. R. Rüffer (DE), Naveen Mallela (SG, JPMorgan, under JDA)

• G06Q20/383 – Payment architectures with anonymous user accounts using cryptographic techniques (Pedersen commitments, ring signatures).

• G06Q40/04 – Finance or banking systems specially adapted for real-time gross settlement (RTGS).

• H04L9/065 – Encryption arrangements using elliptic-curve cryptography, particularly hiding transaction graphs.

Status: Granted – Patent No. 359891, Gazette 11 Jan 2022.

Technical essence: “Opaque” side-chain where amounts and counter-parties are blinded; net obligations are settled atomically on a public Quorum instance via adaptor signatures (BIP-340 Schnorr).

Standard contribution: Reference code donated to Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) Privacy & Scaling working group (Apache-2.0).

6. Application No. 201817004149

Title: METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BLOCKCHAIN VARIANT USING DIGITAL SIGNATURES

Filing & Priority: 01 Feb 2018 – divisional of 201817004148.

Applicant / Assignee: Deutsche Bank AG (same as above)

Inventors: Same as above

• H04L9/3247 – Digital signature schemes based on elliptic-curve cryptography, including Schnorr and Ed25519 variants.

• G06F21/64 – Protecting data integrity using cryptographic checksums or hash functions.

Status: Granted – Patent No. 363002, Gazette 17 Jun 2022.

Scope: Signature-scheme migration path from ECDSA to Schnorr + Ed25519 within an existing chain via soft-fork using versioned scripts (OP_PUSH_TX_SIG_VERSION).

Claims: 9 claims; independent claim 1 recites “transition epoch block height and multi-sig threshold update transaction”.

7. Application No. 201817004152

Title: METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OFFLINE BLOCKCHAIN EXCHANGES

Filing & Priority: 02 Feb 2018 – same PCT family, continuation-in-part of PCT/EP2017/068,115.

Applicant / Assignee: Deutsche Bank AG

Inventors: Peter Rüffer, Naveen Mallela, Suraj Shetty

IPC (2025.01 edition):

• G06Q20/367 – Payment architectures enabling offline transactions with deferred settlement.

• H04L9/32 – Cryptographic mechanisms using digital signatures for integrity and authenticity.

Status: Granted – Patent No. 360550, Gazette 04 Feb 2022.

Technical core: Dual-ledger architecture—offline “shadow chain” signed with time-bound HMAC keys; periodic cut-through settlement to main chain using adaptor signatures.

Commercial pilot: Deutsche Bank “Project Gopher” – cross-border remittance corridors in Kenya, Ghana and South Africa (2023-24).

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