U.S. Patent 10778445 was awarded to Alibaba Group Holding Limited on September 15, 2020 and is entitled “Processing data elements stored in blockchain networks.” The first named inventor is Zhiyuan Feng of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for managing data element stored in a blockchain network. One of the methods includes receiving a request from a client computing device to store a data element into the blockchain network by a blockchain data element processing server. The blockchain data element processing server determines whether the client computing device is authorized to store the data element into the blockchain network and whether the data element is a sensitive data element. If the client computing device is authorized to store the data element into the blockchain network and the data element is not a sensitive data element, the blockchain data element processing server stores the data element that is encrypted using an encryption algorithm into the blockchain network. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on December 13, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/713428 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10778445. The primary examiner was Victor Lesniewski.

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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