U.S. Patent 11037144 was awarded to Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. on June 15, 2021 and is entitled “Blockchain data processing method, apparatus, device, and system.” The first named inventor is Xuming Lu of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Implementations of the present specification disclose a blockchain data processing method, apparatus, device, and system. A request for transitioning a state of a contract stored at a blockchain system is received at a plurality of blockchain nodes of the blockchain system. The request includes signature data of at least one state participant of the contract. The contract is associated with a pre-determined number of participants. The signature data is verified at a blockchain node. The verification is based on at least one public key corresponding to the at least one state participant. A determination is made whether the signature data of the at least one state participant is verified. In response to determining that the signature data of the at least one state participant is verified, a new contract state defined in the request is confirmed. The pre-determined number of participants is pre-determined in the contract. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on May 07, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/405616 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11037144. The assistant examiner was Dennis G Keritsis.

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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