U.S. Patent 10755276 was awarded to Alibaba Group Holding Limited on August 25, 2020 and is entitled “Event processing method, apparatus and electronic device based on blockchain technology.” The first named inventor is Baoli Ma of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

One or more embodiments of the specification provide a method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for processing an event involving a plurality of users in a blockchain. The method is implementable by any user involved in the event, the method comprising: generating, by a computing device of the user of the event, descriptive information of the event; sending the descriptive information to a computing device of another user of event through an off-chain channel for the another user to verify the descriptive information and to submit triggering information associated with the another user corresponding to the event to the blockchain after verifying the descriptive information; and submitting, by the computing device of the user, triggering information associated with the user corresponding to the event to the blockchain for the blockchain to process the event according to the descriptive information after verifying all triggering information submitted by the plurality of users. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on November 30, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/699603 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10755276. The primary examiner was James D Nigh.

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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