U.S. Patent 10666425 was awarded to SHANGHAI NETBAN EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED on May 26, 2020 and is entitled “Digital education record management method based on blockchain token technology.” The first named inventor is Jianbiao Dai of Shanghai, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A digital education record management method based on the blockchain token technology, the method includes: generating a fixed number of tokens on the blockchain of the entire network through a hash algorithm; generating an educational institution hash address and a management key matching the educational institution hash address for an educational institution; assigning a sufficient number of tokens to the educational institution according to the scale and requirement of the educational institution; generating a student hash address and a management key corresponding to the student hash address for the student through the hash algorithm; establishing a unified issuing rule of the token by educational institutions, issuing the token to the student when the student meets the rule; reading data on the blockchain node by using a blockchain scanning tool; generating a digital education record for the student according to the data; checking the digital education record through an authorization key. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on June 04, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/996547 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10666425. The primary examiner was Beemnet W Dada.

SHANGHAI NETBAN EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 1 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 0 times by other U.S. patents according to our law firm research, and can be considered an innovative patent in the field of cryptocurrency and blockchain.

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