US Patent Issued to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology on Oct. 27 for "Data preprocessing methods, data encryption methods, apparatuses, and devices" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,903, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Data preprocessing methods, data encryption methods, apparatuses, and devices" was invented by Yufei Lu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of this specification disclose data encryption and data preprocessing. In an implementation, a method includes for online data encryption: generating, based on plaintext data, a second component of ciphertext data. From a data set and as a selected first component of ciphertext data, a first component of ciphertext data is selected. Based on the first componen...