ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,184, issued on April 7, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Methods for constructing trusted grid, trusted grids, and application interaction methods thereon" was invented by Junxian Xiao (Hangzhou, China), Shuai Wang (Hangzhou, China) and Shoumeng Yan (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Trusted grid construction includes respectively loading, by a plurality of computing nodes, uniform target code in trusted execution environments (TEEs) of the plurality of computing nodes. A target metric value corresponding to the target code is stored to form a plurality of trusted node...