ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,299, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to HANGZHOU ALICLOUD FEITIAN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Parity block generation method and apparatus" was invented by Shuzhan Wei (Hangzhou, China), Junqing Gu (Hangzhou, China), Yafei Zhao (Hangzhou, China) and Yuanyuan Dong (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parity block generation method and apparatus are disclosed. The method comprises: for a plurality of original data blocks for which parity blocks are to be generated, determining a global coding matrix for the plurality of original data blocks; for each local domain that is obtained by dividing the plu...