U.S. Patent 10878417 was awarded to Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. on December 29, 2020 and is entitled “Method and apparatus for consensus verification.” The first named inventor is Ning Li of Guangdong, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A method for consensus verification implementable by a first blockchain node in a consensus network may comprise: receiving a transaction request from a client, and performing a first security verification on the transaction request; in response to determining that the transaction request passes the first security verification, storing the transaction request, and broadcasting the transaction request to each of second blockchain nodes in the consensus network, causing the each second blockchain node to store the transaction request in response to the second blockchain node determining that the transaction request passes a second security verification; performing pre-processing on at least one stored transaction request in response to determining that a preset condition is satisfied, to obtain and store a pre-processed block; and broadcasting the obtained pre-processed block to the second blockchain nodes, causing the second blockchain nodes to perform consensus verification on the obtained pre-processed block. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on January 24, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 16/752323 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10878417. The primary examiner was Neha Patel.

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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