U.S. Patent 10985908 was awarded to Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. on April 20, 2021 and is entitled “Data storage method, data query method and apparatuses.” The first named inventor is Hao WU of Guangdong, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A data storage method comprises sending, by a blockchain node associated with a blockchain, data to an encryption device to cause the encryption device to encrypt the data and return the encrypted data to the blockchain node; receiving the encrypted data returned by the encryption device; and sending the encrypted data to other blockchain nodes associated with the blockchain to cause each of the other blockchain nodes to store the encrypted data in the blockchain after performing consensus verification on the encrypted data with success. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on September 24, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/139887 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10985908. The primary examiner was Kristine L Kincaid.

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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