ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,169, issued on June 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"User data management method and related device" was invented by Xueqiang Yan (Shanghai), Mingyu Zhao (Shanghai) and Jianjun Wu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology of this application relates to a user data management method and a related device, to improve user information security. The method in embodiments of this application includes a data request device sends a first request to a blockchain platform, where the first request indicates that the data request device needs to access a data storage device. The data requ...