ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,590, issued on May 5, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for publishing smart contract, computer-readable medium,and electronic device" was invented by Bo Fu (Shenzhen, China), Maocai Li (Shenzhen, China), Wei Shi (Shenzhen, China), Li Kong (Shenzhen, China), Yanxue Chong (Shenzhen, China), Yehui Huang (Shenzhen, China), Jiangwei Ti (Shenzhen, China) and Jiahui Cui (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for publishing a smart contract includes: generating a version number index value according to a contract name of the smart contract, and searching for an associated ta...