ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,590, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to CHINA UNIONPAY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Payment method, gateway device, server and storage medium" was invented by Wenbin Qi (Shanghai), Zhijie Xu (Shanghai), Weiqi Yu (Shanghai), Sishuang Wan (Shanghai), Qi Zhang (Shanghai) and Teng Hou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present application provide a payment method, a gateway device, a server and a storage medium. The method is applied to the gateway device, and the method includes: obtaining target identification information and payment amount of a target IoT device connected to the gateway device, wherein the target ide...