ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,775, issued on April 14, was assigned to MASHANG CONSUMER FINANCE Co. LTD. (Chongqing, China).

"Data interaction" was invented by Wenquan Xiao (Chongqing, China) and Ling Tang (Chongqing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data interaction method is applied to a first member node of a first alliance network including an operation node and a plurality of member nodes. The method includes: encrypting first interaction data based on a public key of the second member node to obtain first encrypted data; signing the first interaction data and/or the first encrypted data based on a private key of the first member node to obtain first ...