ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,797, issued on March 24, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Federated data query methods and apparatuses based on privacy preserving" was invented by Wuqiong Pan (Hangzhou, China), Tao Wei (Hangzhou, China), Tingting Li (Hangzhou, China), Ran Duan (Hangzhou, China) and Bei Jin (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data query methods, apparatuses and computer-readable media are described. In an example process of processing, by a third party, a federated data table formed based on data of a plurality of data parties, if related data need to be obtained based on sorting of m...