U.S. Patent 11100094 was awarded to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd. on August 24, 2021 and is entitled “Taking snapshots of blockchain data.” The first named inventor is Zhonghao Lu of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A computer-implemented method for blockchain data storage includes sending a marker message from a first blockchain node in a first shard of a blockchain network to a second blockchain node in a phosphor of the blockchain network; receiving a marker block from the second blockchain node, wherein the marker block is associated with the phosphor and includes the marker message; creating a first block associated with the first shard that includes a block associated with the phosphor that immediately precedes the marker block; creating a second block associated with the first shard that includes the marker block; generating, during creation of the second block associated with the first shard, a snapshot of state information corresponding to a newest block associated with the first shard; and storing the snapshot of the state information. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on October 30, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 17/085165 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11100094. The primary examiner was Anhtai V Tran.

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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