US Patent Issued to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology on March 25 for "Query optimization methods, apparatuses, and systems for secure multi-party database" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,885, issued on March 25, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Query optimization methods, apparatuses, and systems for secure multi-party database" was invented by Yang Yang (Hangzhou, China), Qunshan Huang (Hangzhou, China), Jun Qi (Hangzhou, China), Shunde Cao (Hangzhou, China), Pu Duan (Hangzhou, China), Jian Du (Hangzhou, China), Qingkai Mao (Hangzhou, China), Yang Zhao (Hangzhou, China), Kefeng Yu (Zhejiang, China), Lei Wang (Hangzhou, China) and Benyu Zhang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of this specification provide query optimization methods, a...