ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,790, issued on May 5, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Data writing method, recovery method, and reading method, and corresponding apparatus" was invented by Hongliang Tian (Hangzhou, China), Qingsong Chen (Hangzhou, China), Shaowei Song (Hangzhou, China) and Shoumeng Yan (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of the present specification provide a data writing, data recovery, and data reading method, and a corresponding secure disk apparatus. The data writing method includes following: User data blocks are first written into a write cache, and a plurality of...