U.S. Patent 11188418 was awarded to Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. on November 30, 2021 and is entitled “Shared blockchain data storage based on error correction code.” The first named inventor is Haizhen Zhuo 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 storing blockchain data. One of the methods includes determining, by a blockchain node, one or more blocks that are infrequently visited; performing error correction coding of the one or more blocks to generate one or more encoded blocks; dividing, based on one or more predetermined rules, each of the one or more encoded blocks to a plurality of data sets; selecting one or more data sets from the plurality of data sets of each of the one or more encoded blocks based on the one or more predetermined rules; hashing the one or more data sets to generate one or more hash values corresponding to the one or more data sets; storing the one or more hash values; and deleting the one or more data sets. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on April 17, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 16/852212 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11188418. The primary examiner was Mujtaba M Chaudry.

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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