U.S. Patent 10984492 was awarded to Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. on April 20, 2021 and is entitled “Managing housing scores using smart contracts in blockchain networks.” The first named inventor is Zhiyuan Feng 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 managing housing scores of residents using a smart contract executing within a blockchain network. The method includes: receiving, by a node of the blockchain network, a smart contract that defines operations for managing housing scores of residents, the operations including: a score inquiry operation, a score addition operation, a score deduction operation, a score redemption operation, and a score transfer operation; executing, by the node, one of the operations defined in the smart contract for managing a housing score of a specified resident; determining, by the node, if a current housing score of the specified resident triggers a reporting event; and in response to determining that the current housing score of the specified resident triggers the reporting event, reporting, by the node to the specified resident, the current housing score of the specified resident. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on September 30, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/587791 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10984492. The primary examiner was Richard W. Crandall.

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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