U.S. Patent 11016962 was awarded to Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. on May 25, 2021 and is entitled “Blockchain data storage based on shared nodes and error correction code.” The first named inventor is Haizhen Zhuo of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for storing blockchain data. One of the methods includes determining block data and current state data associated with a current block of a blockchain; sending the current state data to one or more shared storage nodes of a blockchain network; performing error correction coding of the block data to generate encoded block data; dividing, based on one or more predetermined rules, the encoded block data into a plurality of data sets; storing, based on the one or more predetermined rules, one or more data sets of the plurality of data sets; hashing each data set of remaining data sets of the plurality of data sets to generate one or more hash values corresponding to the remaining data sets; and storing the one or more hash values and the current state data. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on July 31, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 16/945302 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11016962. The primary examiner was Samir W Rizk.

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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