U.S. Patent 10761948 was awarded to Alibaba Group Holding Limited on September 01, 2020 and is entitled “Method, apparatus, and electronic device for restoring state data of blockchain.” The first named inventor is Haizhen Zhuo of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A computer-implemented method, computer-implemented apparatus, and non-transitory, computer-readable medium for restoring state data of a blockchain. Account state data in the blockchain is organized into a Merkle state tree and stored in a database. The Merkle state tree includes a current Merkle state tree obtained by organizing a latest account state of each blockchain account and a historical Merkle state tree obtained by organizing a historical account state of each blockchain account. A target block to be restored is determined, where the target block is any historical block preceding a latest block of the blockchain. State restoration logic is iteratively performed until a latest account state corresponding to each blockchain account on a current Merkle state tree of the latest block is restored to a historical account state corresponding to each blockchain account on a historical Merkle state tree of the target block. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on January 29, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 16/776301 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10761948. The primary examiner was Michael Pham.

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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