U.S. Patent 11120075 was awarded to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd. on September 14, 2021 and is entitled “Methods and devices for storing and managing audio data on blockchain.” The first named inventor is Hui Xu of Shenzhen, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Disclosed herein are methods, devices, and apparatuses, including computer programs stored on computer-readable media, for storing and managing audio data. One of the methods includes: receiving a request to store audio data; associating the audio data with a spectrogram generated based on the audio data; storing the audio data and the spectrogram on a blockchain; and providing access to the audio data based on the spectrogram. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on November 19, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 16/952728 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11120075. The assistant examiner was David Siegel.

Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 38 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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