U.S. Patent 10756901 was awarded to Alibaba Group Holding Limited on August 25, 2020 and is entitled “Blockchain-based identity authentication method, apparatus, and device.” The first named inventor is Xueqing Zou of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Embodiments of the specification provide a blockchain-based identity authentication method, apparatus, and device. An exemplary method includes: obtaining a user identity authentication request, the user identity authentication request comprising first to-be-authenticated biometric feature information of a user and to-be-authenticated identity information of the user; querying, through a first smart contract in a blockchain, biometric feature information based on the to-be-authenticated identity information in a user identity data node in the blockchain; determining, through the first smart contract, whether the biometric feature information is consistent with the first to-be-authenticated biometric feature information; if yes, generating an authentication result; generating, through a second smart contract, a user identity authentication record comprising the first to-be-authenticated biometric feature information, the to-be-authenticated identity information, and the authentication result; and storing the user identity authentication record into the blockchain. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on March 31, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 16/835487 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10756901. The primary examiner was Abiy Getachew.

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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