U.S. Patent 11151582 was awarded to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd. on October 19, 2021 and is entitled “Smart logistics management using blockchain.” The first named inventor is Yanpeng Li 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 logistic management through a blockchain network. One of the methods includes storing a smart contract in a blockchain of the blockchain network. The smart contract corresponds to a logistic process. A transaction information about a transaction in the logistic process is verified and validated based on the smart contract and is hashed into the blockchain upon consensus being concluded. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on July 31, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 16/945476 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11151582. The primary examiner was Paul R Fisher.

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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