U.S. Patent 10911244 was awarded to Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. on February 02, 2021 and is entitled “Retrieving public data for blockchain networks using highly available trusted execution environments.” The first named inventor is Yirong Yu of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for enhancing blockchain network security. Implementations include receiving a request for data from the data source, transmitting the request to a relay system that is external to the blockchain network and that includes a multi-node cluster including a plurality of relay system nodes, receiving a result provided from a relay system node, the result being digitally signed using a private key of the relay system node, verifying that the relay system node is registered, verifying an integrity of the result based on a public key of the relay system node and a digital signature of the result in response to verifying that the relay system node is registered, and transmitting the result to a client in response to verifying the integrity of the result. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on July 30, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 16/944115 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10911244. The primary examiner was Dao Q Ho.

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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