ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,547, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Methods and apparatuses for starting application on target platform" was invented by Yulong Zhang (Hangzhou, China) and Tao Wei (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this specification provide a method and an apparatus for starting an application on a target platform, where the target platform includes at least a verifiable startup chip and a trusted execution environment, and the method includes: sequentially starting a plurality of system startup items based on a predetermined startup order, where s...