ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,122, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Data query method and apparatus, storage medium, and device" was invented by Jingru Liang (Hangzhou, China) and Tao Wang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This specification discloses a method. The method includes: when a received match statement includes a filtering condition of a path pattern, a node that matches a path in the path pattern is queried from all nodes in the graph database based on the path, to obtain a first node set. A node that meets a matching condition in the match statement is determined fr...