U.S. Patent 11194792 was awarded to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd. on December 07, 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 generating, by one or more processing devices, a snapshot of a current state tree associated with a fixed depth Merkle tree (FDMT) during creation of a block of a blockchain, wherein the current state tree stores state information corresponding to a newest block of the blockchain; and storing, by the one or more processing devices, the snapshot of the current state tree. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on October 30, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 17/085152 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11194792. The primary examiner was Tuan A Pham.

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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