ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,551, issued on July 14, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for executing computing task, and storage medium and electronic apparatus" was invented by Zhicheng Qu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method and apparatus for executing a computing task. The method comprises: a target computing power node claiming a target computing task by querying a smart contract in a distributed ledger network, where the target computing power node is a node which completes computing power registration in the distributed ledger network in advance, and the target computing task is published by ...