U.S. Patent 10846765 was awarded to Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. on November 24, 2020 and is entitled “Blockchain-based e-bill number application method, apparatus, and electronic device.” The first named inventor is Ge Jin of Hanzghou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A computer-implemented method, non-transitory, computer-readable medium, and computer-implemented system are provided for applying a blockchain-based e-bill number. A blockchain includes multiple levels of accounts used to maintain e-bill number segments. An e-bill number application transaction published to the blockchain is received, where the e-bill number application transaction includes an account identifier of an account of a number applicant; allocating one or more e-bill numbers to the number applicant from an e-bill number segment maintained in an upper-level account corresponding to the account of the number applicant in response to the e-bill number application transaction; and adding the one or more e-bill numbers allocated to the number applicant to the account of the number applicant for maintenance. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on January 31, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 16/779198 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10846765. The primary examiner was A. Hunter Wilder.

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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