ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,461, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to BEIJING JINGDONG QIANSHI TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Blockchain-based data processing method and apparatus" was invented by Ruifei Liu (Beijing), Wenfeng Yang (Beijing), Dongyang Xi (Beijing) and Binbin Xiu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blockchain-based data processing method, apparatus and storage medium provides flexible smart contract deployment without restarting. In response to receiving a contract deployment request sent from a requesting node in a blockchain network, a contract file corresponding to the contract deployment request is acquired. The contract file is generat...