U.S. Patent 11017061 was awarded to Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. on May 25, 2021 and is entitled “Identifying copyrighted material using copyright information embedded in electronic files.” The first named inventor is Zhiguo Li 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 embedding copyright information in one or more pages for presenting digital content. One of the methods includes generating, by a computing device, a unique identifier (ID) based on copyright information associated with the digital content; identifying one or more attributes associated with a page design of one or more blank pages of an electronic file; embedding the unique ID in the one or more blank pages by changing the one or more attributes to be representative of the unique ID; allocating the digital content to at least one of the one or more information-embedded pages; and distributing, by the computing device, the one or more information-embedded pages allocated with the digital content to the blockchain network. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on July 31, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 16/945316 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11017061. The primary examiner was Mohammad A Siddiqi.

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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