ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,666, issued on March 3, was assigned to HANGZHOU ALICLOUD FEITIAN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Encoding method based on erasure code, and distributed system, device and storage medium" was invented by Shuzhan Wei (Hangzhou, China), Yafei Zhao (Hangzhou, China), Junqing Gu (Hangzhou, China), Yuanyuan Dong (Hangzhou, China) and Liang Chen (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Encoding methods based on erasure code are disclosed, and a distributed system, a device and a storage medium are provided. The method comprises: acquiring K data blocks of data to be processed; dividing the K data blocks into L da...