ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,135, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Cross-platform plug-in development methods, apparatuses, and electronic devices" was invented by Sijie Zhu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cross-platform plug-in development is described. Cross-platform plug-in development includes acquiring a plug-in template corresponding to a plurality of integrated development environments, where the plug-in template includes pre-compiled execution code adapted to running environments corresponding to the plurality of integrated development environments. Service code is ac...