ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,721, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Methods and systems for recognizing disguised device" was invented by Xinxin Lei (Hangzhou, China), Jinfu Chen (Hangzhou, China) and Xiaofei Wan (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a method and a system for recognizing a disguised device. A client of an application is installed on the device for interacting with the application, and the method includes: in response to an interaction with an application installed on a device, receiving environment information and a device ID associated wi...