ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,991, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Implementation of one-touch login service" was invented by Wanqiao Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Lin Huang (Hangzhou, China), Juhu Nie (Hangzhou, China), Yunding Jian (Hangzhou, China), Wei Fu (Hangzhou, China), Hongjian Cao (Hangzhou, China) and Yujia Liu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods, non-transitory, computer-readable media, and computer-implemented systems implementing a one-touch login service are described. Information about a first IP address is obtained from a verification requ...