ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,355, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Data storage methods, apparatuses, devices, and storage media" was invented by Mengyu Li (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This specification discloses data storage methods, apparatuses, devices, and storage media. One method comprises receiving data to be stored, wherein the data comprise data corresponding to a plurality of fields, determining whether a size of the data exceeds a predetermined threshold, and in response to determining that the size of the data exceeds the predetermined threshold: splitting a p...