ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,044, issued on March 4, was assigned to CHINA UNIONPAY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Method, terminal device, server, system and storage medium for activating payment functions" was invented by Zhenzhong Zou (Shanghai), Cheng Peng (Shanghai), Quan Sun (Shanghai), Gang Liu (Shanghai), Ruiming Wang (Shanghai), Yanping Wu (Shanghai), Chengchu Zhan (Shanghai) and Hua Cai (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a method, terminal device, server, system and storage medium for activating payment functions. The method is applicable to a terminal device. The method includes receiving a first input from a user; genera...