U.S. Patent 11055712 was awarded to Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. on July 06, 2021 and is entitled “Shared blockchain data storage.” The first named inventor is Haizhen Zhuo of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A method includes sending, by a consensus node of a blockchain network, current state information and one or more transactions associated with a current block of a blockchain to one or more shared storage nodes of the blockchain network, wherein the consensus node stores block header associated with every block of the blockchain and the current state information, the one or more shared storage nodes store block body and historic state information associated with every block of the blockchain, and wherein the historic state information is stored as key-value pairs (KVPs) of a historic state tree with values being account states of accounts associated with the blockchain network and keys being hash values of the corresponding account states; verifying that the one or more transactions are stored by the one or more shared storage nodes; and receiving a notification of a transaction associated with the consensus node. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on December 13, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/714484 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11055712. The primary examiner was John W Hayes.

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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