ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,638, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Object similarity determining methods and apparatuses, and object recommendation methods and apparatuses" was invented by Qixian Zhou (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of this specification provide methods and apparatuses for object similarity determining and object recommendation. In an example object similarity determining method, object cipher state representations of a first object and a second object are obtained; a representation compensation factor of an object cipher state representation ...