ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,036, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SHANGHAI TUGE DATA TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Distributed management system and management method for smart card management apparatuses" was invented by Linlin Zhou (Shanghai), Kaihang Wang (Shanghai) and Hao Zhou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a distributed management system for smart card management apparatuses and a management method therefor. The system includes: a service provision apparatus belonging to a service center, a plurality of smart card management apparatuses, and a plurality of terminals; wherein the service provision apparatus includes a service p...