U.S. Patent 10909252 was awarded to Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. on February 02, 2021 and is entitled “Blockchain-based relationship binding method, apparatus, and device.” The first named inventor is Jincheng Wang of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

One or more embodiments of the specification provide a blockchain-based relationship binding method, apparatus, and device. An exemplary method may include: receiving a user binding request including a binding tag, the binding tag includes (1) a binding type of a binding relationship, and (2) role information of the second user in the binding relationship; sending a confirmation request to a second user; retrieving a relationship table of the second user; in response to the binding type in the user binding request includes a one-to-one binding relationship: determining whether the one or more binding types in the relationship table of the second user include the binding type in the user binding request, and if yes, terminating the method; and generating a record of binding relationship; writing the record of binding relationship into a blockchain; and updating the relationship table in the local database. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on May 18, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 16/877337 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10909252. The primary examiner was Noura Zoubair.

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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