U.S. Patent 10708068 was awarded to Alibaba Group Holding Limited on July 07, 2020 and is entitled “System and method for implementing blockchain-based digital certificates.” The first named inventor is Yanpeng Li of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for implementing digital certificates. One of the methods includes: generating a digital certificate; generating a digital abstract of the digital certificate; transmitting the digital abstract of the digital certificate to one or more nodes of a blockchain for storage in the blockchain; obtaining a transaction identification associated with storing the digital abstract of the digital certificate in the blockchain; and associating a digital mark with the transaction identification. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on February 28, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/472752 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10708068. The primary examiner was Fatoumata Traore.

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 6 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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