ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,885, issued on May 6, was assigned to Alibaba Cloud Computing Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Data processing method and data processing apparatus" was invented by Zilin Chen (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing method includes: receiving a data processing request carrying a query statement; converting the query statement into a corresponding relational algebra tree based on the data processing request; determining an operation type corresponding to the query statement based on the relational algebra tree; delivering the query statement to a first database in response to the operation type being a first type...