U.S. Patent 10789628 was awarded to Alibaba Group Holding Limited on September 29, 2020 and is entitled “Blockchain-based bill number allocation method, apparatus and electronic device.” The first named inventor is Ge Jin of Hanzghou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

In an implementation of a computer-implemented method, a target transaction sent by a billing initiator is received, where the target transaction includes bill information of an e-bill to be issued. In response to the target transaction, check logic is invoked in a smart contract deployed in a blockchain network, and a validity check is performed on the bill information. If the validity check succeeds, allocation logic is invoked in the smart contract, and an e-bill number is allocated to the bill information from available e-bill number segments maintained in a blockchain account corresponding to a biller of the e-bill. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on February 05, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 16/783094 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10789628. The primary examiner was A. Hunter Wilder.

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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