U.S. Patent 10698885 was awarded to Alibaba Group Holding Limited on June 30, 2020 and is entitled “Method and device for writing service data in block chain system.” The first named inventor is Guojun YE of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A method for writing transaction data in a blockchain system is disclosed. The blockchain system comprises at least one blockchain. The method comprises: receiving a blockchain transaction data writing request comprising transaction feature information of transaction data to be added to the blockchain; determining a blockchain matching the transaction data to be added to the blockchain according to a blockchain data record table and the transaction feature information of the transaction data to be added to the blockchain, wherein the blockchain data record table records transaction type identification information associated with the blockchain for reflecting transaction feature information of transaction data in the blockchain; and writing an execution result of the transaction data to be added to the blockchain into the blockchain matching the transaction data to be added to the blockchain. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on January 28, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 16/775116 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10698885. The assistant examiner was Nirav K Khakhar.

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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