U.S. Patent 10891612 was awarded to Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. on January 12, 2021 and is entitled “Blockchain member management data processing methods, apparatuses, servers, and systems.” The first named inventor is Xuming Lu of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

The present solution discloses methods and apparatuses for automatic processing of member management data in a blockchain. One example method includes storing, in a blockchain, a contract rule, wherein the contract rule includes a rule that is agreed upon by blockchain members and is used for determining registration conditions of registering users for joining a blockchain. Receiving a registration transaction message from a registering user based on the contract rule, wherein the registration transaction message includes identification information of at least one certification authority and a signature certificate of each of the certification authorities identified in the identification information. Verifying the at least one signature certificate based on the identification information by using public keys of the at least one certification authorities in a blockchain node. Finally, in response to determining that the at least one signature certificate are successfully verified, registering, as a new blockchain member, the registering user. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on May 10, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/409156 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10891612. The assistant examiner was Yin Y Choi.

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 1 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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