U.S. Patent 10917246 was awarded to Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. on February 09, 2021 and is entitled “System and method for blockchain-based cross-entity authentication.” The first named inventor is Shubo Li of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for blockchain-based cross-entity authentication are provided. One of the methods includes: obtaining, from a blockchain, a blockchain transaction comprising an authentication request by a first entity for authenticating a user, wherein the authentication request comprises a decentralized identifier (DID) of the user; in response to determining that the first entity is permitted to access authentication information of the user endorsed by a second entity, obtaining an authentication result of the user by the second entity in response to the obtained blockchain transaction, wherein the authentication result is associated with the DID; generating a different blockchain transaction comprising the authentication result; and transmitting the different blockchain transaction to a blockchain node for adding to the blockchain. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on June 10, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 16/898265 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10917246. The primary examiner was Dant B Shaifer Harriman.

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 9 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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