ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,992, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Monitoring, sorting, rpesenting objects and generating a multimedia document by a terminal computing device" was invented by Chi Fang (Beijing) and Haizhou Zhu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a data processing method and device, a terminal, and a storage medium. The data processing method provided includes: acquiring target objects and attribute information thereof in response to a first instruction; and sorting the target objects and/or the subsidiary information based on the attribute information to obtain a sorting ...