ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,417, issued on May 12, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Blockchain-based data processing method and apparatus, device, storage medium, and program product" was invented by Rui Guo (Shenzhen, China), Hu Lan (Shenzhen, China), Zongyou Wang (Shenzhen, China), Jun Liang (Shenzhen, China), Yang Lu (Shenzhen, China), Chaojie Qi (Shenzhen, China), Shitao Xu (Shenzhen, China), Yang Mo (Shenzhen, China), Yifang Shi (Shenzhen, China), Gengliang Zhu (Shenzhen, China), Lisen Li (Shenzhen, China), Yubin Song (Shenzhen, China), Chao Wang (Shenzhen, China), Ming Liu (Shenzhen, China), Yongjing Li (Shenzhen, China), Hui Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Zimin Chen (Shenzhen, ...