ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,585, issued on July 7, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Methods, apparatuses and systems for obtaining data authorization" was invented by Wuqiong Pan (Hangzhou, China), Tao Wei (Hangzhou, China), Tingting Li (Hangzhou, China), Zhongtian Qian (Hangzhou, China), Tianyi Li (Hangzhou, China) and Zhenqiang Wei (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods, apparatuses and systems for obtaining data authorization are described. In an example method, a first computing node in a trusted computing center receives an authentication request from a first provider...