ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,777, issued on June 23, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Blockchain-based data processing method and apparatus, device, medium, and product" was invented by Qucheng Liu (Shenzhen, China), Zongyou Wang (Shenzhen, China), Jinsong Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Gengliang Zhu (Shenzhen, China), Yifang Shi (Shenzhen, China), Hanqing Liu (Shenzhen, China), Yingjie Guo (Shenzhen, China), Zhiyong Liao (Shenzhen, China) and Hu Lan (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blockchain-based data processing method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium are provided. Block proposal information is rece...