ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,525, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Log-structured secure data storage method and apparatus" was invented by Hongliang Tian (Hangzhou, China), Weijie Liu (Hangzhou, China), Qing Li (Hangzhou, China), Zongmin Gu (Hangzhou, China) and Shoumeng Yan (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this specification provide a log-structured secure data storage method and apparatus, to securely store data in a hard disk in a trusted execution environment (TEE). Such a data operation is performed based on the following three logical data structures: a d...