U.S. Patent 11126458 was awarded to Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. on September 21, 2021 and is entitled “Method, apparatus, and electronic device for resource allocation based on blockchain.” The first named inventor is Ping Zhang of Guangdong, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Implementations of the present specification provide methods, apparatuses, and electronic devices for resource allocation based on blockchain. The blockchain stores a mapping relationship between a digital digest of an invoice and a resource allocation state corresponding to the invoice. The method includes: receiving a target transaction submitted by a client to participate in resource allocation based on a target invoice; in response to the target transaction, calculating a digital digest of the target invoice, and querying a resource allocation state stored in the blockchain and corresponding to the digital digest; and if the detected resource allocation state is an unallocated state, invoking resource allocation logic declared in a smart contract published in the blockchain, to allocate resources to the client from a predetermined resource pool based on a predetermined allocation rule, and returning a resource allocation result to the client. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on January 28, 2021  as U.S. Patent Application 17/160942 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11126458. The primary examiner was Gurkanwaljit Singh.

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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