U.S. Patent 11038884 was awarded to Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. on June 15, 2021 and is entitled “Blockchain-based copyright protection method and apparatus, and electronic device.” The first named inventor is Zhiguo Li of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for a blockchain-based right protection. One of the methods includes: sending, to a blockchain network, a request for verifying a right to access a digital product, the request comprising identity information associated with a target user; receiving, from the blockchain network, a response comprising a result of verifying the right to access the digital product based on the identity information associated with the target user; in response to the result being that the verifying the right to access the digital product is successful, determining identification information for tracing the target user; and embedding the identification information for tracing the target user in content associated with the digital product. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on December 17, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 17/125240 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11038884. The primary examiner was John B King.

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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