ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,458, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Advanced New Technologies Co. Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Business process starting method and apparatus" was invented by Sanyuan He (Zhejiang, China) and Yan Xia (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A business process starting method, which is applied to a terminal and includes: acquiring multimedia data, the multimedia data carrying image data of a predetermined scenario, and uploading the multimedia data to a server; receiving business entry information returned by the server, wherein the server maintains a correspondence between standard image information of predetermin...