U.S. Patent 10749669 was awarded to Alibaba Group Holding Limited on August 18, 2020 and is entitled “Blockchain system and data storage method and apparatus.” The first named inventor is Ning Li of Guangdong, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for storing data are provided. One of the methods includes: receiving a transaction request from a first node, the transaction request comprising transaction data; determining, based on the transaction data, a blockchain network corresponding to the transaction request from a plurality of blockchain networks, wherein the first node is excluded from a consensus process associated with the determined blockchain network; and forwarding the transaction request to the determined blockchain network. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on December 06, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/705886 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10749669. The primary examiner was Syed A Zaidi.

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 1 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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