U.S. Patent 10812477 was awarded to Alibaba Group Holding Limited on October 20, 2020 and is entitled “Blockchain-based enterprise authentication method, apparatus, and device, and blockchain-based authentication traceability method, apparatus, and device.” The first named inventor is Xueqing Zou of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

One or more embodiments of the present specification provide a blockchain-based enterprise authentication method, apparatus, and device. The authentication method includes: receiving an enterprise authentication request, wherein the enterprise authentication request comprises to-be-authenticated enterprise information of an enterprise, to-be-authenticated identity information of a legal representative of the enterprise, and auxiliary authentication information; performing a first determination of whether the to-be-authenticated enterprise information matches with enterprise information stored in a first database; performing a second determination of whether the to-be-authenticated identity information matches with legal representative identity information stored in a second database; sending an obtaining request to a client device for auxiliary legal representative information according to the auxiliary authentication information; performing a third determination of whether the to-be-authenticated identity information is authenticated based on the auxiliary legal representative information; generating an enterprise authentication record if the first determination, the second determination, and the third determination are affirmative. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on March 30, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 16/834999 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10812477. The primary examiner was John B King.

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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