ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,686, issued on March 24, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Event detection and classification method, apparatus, and device" was invented by Wenbiao Zhao (Hangzhou, China), Haotian Wang (Hangzhou, China), Xiaofeng Wu (Hangzhou, China) and Weiqiang Wang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of the present specification disclose an event risk detection method, apparatus, and device. The method includes: obtaining event description information provided by a plurality of different event initiators when the plurality of different event initiators each initiate ...