U.S. Patent 10846182 was awarded to Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. on November 24, 2020 and is entitled “Blockchain-based consensus method and device.” The first named inventor is Qiang Tang of Wuhan, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

This specification describes techniques for blockchain-based consensus. One example method includes storing, by a database of a blockchain node, consensus data needed for performing a consensus procedure, wherein the consensus data is retrievable by a first server and a second server during the consensus procedure, wherein the blockchain node is included in a blockchain and comprises the first server, the second server, and the database; in response to a determination that the first server is faulty, retrieving, by the second server in place of the first server, the consensus data from the database and executing the consensus procedure based on the consensus data to generate a consensus result; and storing, by the second server, the consensus result in the database. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on March 02, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 16/806917 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10846182. The primary examiner was Jonathan D Gibson.

Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 1031 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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