ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,385, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to AvChain Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Data processing method of trust execution environment using smart contract" was invented by Hyeong-Joon Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing method of a trusted execution environment using a smart contract of the present invention comprises the steps of: a data processing platform server generating, according to a smart contract distributed on a blockchain, a trusted execution environment including a data processing code and an encryption key in response to a data processing request received from a client device; the truste...