U.S. Patent 10536265 was awarded to Alibaba Group Holding Limited on January 14, 2020 and is entitled “Method, system and apparatus for data storage and data access.” The first named inventor is Jun Tong of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

The present application discloses methods and systems to receive a data storage instruction including data to be stored and an identifier of the data; identify a blockchain corresponding to the identifier, the blockchain stored on blockchain network storage nodes of a data access system; identify a key pair corresponding to the identifier, the key pair comprising a private key and a public key; encrypting the data based on the public key to provide encrypted data; updating the blockchain by storing the encrypted data in the blockchain; and storing the updated blockchain in a particular blockchain network storage node of the blockchain network storage nodes, the particular blockchain network storage node associated with a data storage device. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on May 24, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/422641 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10536265. The primary examiner was John B King.

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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