U.S. Patent 10949936 was awarded to Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. on March 16, 2021 and is entitled “Identifying copyrighted material using copyright information embedded in tables.” The first named inventor is Zhiguo Li of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A method includes generating, by a computing device, a unique identifier (ID) based on copyright information associated with the digital content, wherein the copyright information and the digital content are recorded on a blockchain of a blockchain network; identifying, by the computing device, one or more attributes associated with a table; embedding, by the computing device, the unique ID in the table by changing one or more attributes associated with the table to be representative of the unique ID, wherein the embedding produces an information-embedded table that enables retrieval of the copyright information from the blockchain based on the unique ID, and wherein a visual difference between the table and the information-embedded table is not apparent to an unaided human eye; allocating, by the computer device, the digital content to the information-embedded table; and distributing the information-embedded table allocated with the digital content to the blockchain network. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on December 13, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/713829 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10949936. The primary examiner was Jan P Mincarelli.

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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