US Patent Issued to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology on Jan. 27 for "Data encoding and decoding methods and systems" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,143, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Data encoding and decoding methods and systems" was invented by Mengyu Li (Hangzhou, China), Chongmin Huang (Hangzhou, China), Zigang Zhang (Hangzhou, China) and Kaihang Dai (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This specification disclose methods, apparatus, devices, and systems for encoding and decoding data. In one implementation, a method includes: obtaining instance data, and generating, based on ontology definition data, encoded data corresponding to the instance data. The encoded data comprise a data area sto...