U.S. Patent 10878052 was awarded to Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. on December 29, 2020 and is entitled “Blockchain-based cross-chain data operation method and apparatus.” The first named inventor is Zhonghao Lu of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

One or more implementations of the present specification provide a blockchain-based cross-chain data access method. An operation request of a target data is received from a node device of a blockchain of a multi-chain system, wherein the operation request of the target data comprises a URL for performing an operation on the target data, wherein the URL comprises information about an access path of the target data in the multi-chain system, and wherein the multi-chain system comprises a plurality of blockchains. The target data from a target blockchain is determined based on the information of the access path, and an operation is performed on the target data based on the operation request. A result of the operation is transmitted to the node device. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on July 26, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/523383 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10878052. The primary examiner was John M Macilwinen.

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 1 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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