U.S. Patent 11212114 was awarded to Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. on December 28, 2021 and is entitled “Cross-chain interactions using a domain name scheme in blockchain systems.” The first named inventor is Honglin Qiu of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Implementations of the present disclosure include identifying, by a relay that is communicatively linked with a first blockchain instance and a second blockchain instance in a unified blockchain network, a blockchain domain name of a first blockchain instance; identifying a blockchain domain name of the second blockchain instance; receiving, from a node of the first blockchain instance, an access request for accessing the second blockchain instance, wherein the access request including the blockchain domain name of the second blockchain instance; identifying a chain identifier of the second blockchain instance based on the blockchain domain name of the second blockchain instance, wherein the chain identifier of the second blockchain instance indicates a blockchain network configuration of the second blockchain instance; and providing access to the second blockchain instance for the first blockchain instance based on the blockchain network configuration indicated by the chain identifier of the second blockchain instance. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on May 24, 2021  as U.S. Patent Application 17/328680 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11212114. The assistant examiner was Fahimeh Mohammadi.

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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