U.S. Patent 10963542 was awarded to Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. on March 30, 2021 and is entitled “Blockchain-based image processing method and apparatus.” 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 image processing are provided. One of the methods comprises: displaying, by a terminal device, a target image; obtaining, by the terminal device, information of a copyright owner of the target image and a current display environment of the target image; sending, by the terminal device, the obtained information to one or more blockchain nodes configured to obtain ciphertext information by encrypting the obtained information and to store the ciphertext information in a blockchain; obtaining, by the terminal device, the ciphertext information from the blockchain; and updating, by the terminal device, historical information in a pixel matrix of the target image based on the ciphertext information. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on May 04, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 16/866526 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10963542. The primary examiner was Josnel Jeudy.

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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