U.S. Patent 10937096 was awarded to Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. on March 02, 2021 and is entitled “Transaction processing in a service blockchain.” The first named inventor is Honglin Qiu of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Implementations of this specification provide a method and an apparatus for transaction processing in a service blockchain. An example method performed by a node device in the service blockchain includes receiving a target transaction, from a service system interlinked with the service blockchain; in response to receiving the target transaction, (i) triggering execution of a target service and (ii) determining a target asset blockchain corresponding to the target service from a plurality of asset blockchains interlinked with the service blockchain through a cross-chain relay; invoking, through the cross-chain relay, an asset exchange service deployed on the target asset blockchain, to complete asset exchange processing between transaction accounts related to the target transaction; obtaining, through the cross-chain relay, an asset exchange credential between the transaction accounts related to the target transaction; and after obtaining the asset exchange credential, performing further transaction processing on the target service. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on February 10, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 16/786481 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10937096. The primary examiner was Malcolm Cribbs.

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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