U.S. Patent 10798094 was awarded to Alibaba Group Holding Limited on October 06, 2020 and is entitled “Blockchain-based account management.” The first named inventor is Yawen Wei of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

This disclosure relates to account management. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a permission query message from a service system. Verification information is obtained from a first client based on the permission query message. The verification information is associated with an identity of the current user. In response to determining that the verification information is valid, proxy permission information for the current user is obtained from a blockchain. The proxy permission information includes at least operation permission information of the current user for the enterprise account. The proxy permission information is sent to the service system. The proxy permission information configured to be usable by the service system to determine whether to authorize the current user to perform an operation on the enterprise account. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on February 27, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 16/803510 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10798094. The primary examiner was Roderick Tolentino.

Alibaba Group Holding Limited, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 1834 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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