ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,759, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Key management and service processing" was invented by Xianyi Zheng (Hangzhou, China), Dengwei Xu (Hangzhou, China), Zhi Xin (Hangzhou, China) and Xiaofei Wan (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods, apparatuses and systems for key management and service processing. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, by a authentication server from a trusted execution environment (TEE) of a terminal device, device authentication information through a secure channel between the TEE and t...