US Patent Issued to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology on Sept. 8 for "Account opening methods, systems, and apparatuses" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,343, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Account opening methods, systems, and apparatuses" was invented by Dengwei Xu (Hangzhou, China), Bingying Zhu (Hangzhou, China), Xianjun Cui (Hangzhou, China), Zhi Xin (Hangzhou, China), Xiaofei Wan (Hangzhou, China) and Chao Wu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this specification provide account opening methods, systems, and apparatuses. An example method is performed by a terminal device that includes a trusted execution environment (TEE) and an encryption hardware-based secure element. When it ...