ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,146, issued on Oct. 7.

"Storage format for Chinese language and related processing method and apparatus" was invented by Mingwei Yang (West Covina, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage format of Chinese language ("Readable Hanyu Expression" or "RHE") and the related processing methods and systems. Unlike current Chinese processing methods which directly code Chinese characters into fonts for display, RHE takes an indirect approach by storing Chinese language in the RHE storage format that can be mapped to several display forms including simplified and traditional Chinese characters, Hanyu Pinyin, etc. In the RHE storage for...