U.S. Patent 11165576 was awarded to Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. on November 02, 2021 and is entitled “System and method for creating decentralized identifiers.” The first named inventor is Renhui Yang of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for decentralized-identifier creation. One of the methods includes: receiving a request from a first entity for obtaining a new decentralized identifier (DID) for a second entity; determining an existing DID associated with the first entity based on the request; generating a cryptographic key pair associated with the second entity comprising a public key and a private key; creating, based on the public key, a DID document associated with the new DID, wherein the DID document comprises the existing DID associated with the first entity; generating a blockchain transaction for adding the DID document to the blockchain; signing the blockchain transaction using the private key of the cryptographic key pair associated with the second entity; and sending, to a blockchain node associated with the blockchain, the signed blockchain transaction for the blockchain node to add to the blockchain. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on November 27, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 17/105734 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11165576. The primary examiner was Michael W Chao.

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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