U.S. Patent 10754840 was awarded to Alibaba Group Holding Limited on August 25, 2020 and is entitled “Creating index in blockchain-type ledger.” The first named inventor is Xinying Yang of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A method and an apparatus for creating an index in a blockchain-type ledger, and a device are disclosed. According to solutions provided in implementations of the present specification, a service attribute of a data record written to a ledger and a storage location and a sequence number of the data record in the ledger are determined, a mapping relationship is established between the service attribute, the storage location, and the sequence number, and an inverted index with the service attribute as a primary key is created, facilitating subsequent query. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on March 03, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 16/807237 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10754840. The primary examiner was Hasanul Mobin.

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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