ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,895, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Blockchain-based data processing method, device, and readable storage medium" was invented by Zimin Chen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blockchain-based data processing method including: acquiring a resource consumption task including an initiating object address and a target resource identifier; calling, according to the resource consumption task, a resource consumption function, and determining, based on the resource consumption function, a holding object address holding a target virtual resource in the blockchain...