ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,441, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Computing devices and methods for constructing trusted chain of computing device" was invented by Weixing Hou (Hangzhou, China), Lei Hu (Hangzhou, China), Peng Wu (Hangzhou, China), Hailin Luo (Hangzhou, China), Wei An (Hangzhou, China), Chao Li (Hangzhou, China) and Fengyun Shuai (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this specification disclose computing devices and methods for constructing a trusted chain of a computing device, and relate to the field of information security technologies. The method...