U.S. Patent 10785231 was awarded to Alibaba Group Holding Limited on September 22, 2020 and is entitled “Enhancing processing efficiency of blockchain technologies using parallel service data processing.” The first named inventor is Shifeng Wang of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A validation-ready preprocessing block in a current consensus round is obtained by a blockchain node and in a service consensus stage. The validation-ready preprocessing block is validated. If it is determined that the validation-ready preprocessing block is validated, validation is started on a next validation-ready preprocessing block and parallel data processing is performed on service data stored in the validated validation-ready preprocessing block. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on March 19, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/358614 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10785231. The primary examiner was Robert B Leung.

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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