ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,822, issued on June 10, was assigned to Hangzhou AliCloud Feitian Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Data processing method and apparatus" was invented by Xuhui Li (Chengdu, China) and Zhongjie Wu (Chaoyang District, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing method, applied to a server including a network interface card, a central processing unit and a storage medium. The network interface card performs traffic distribution processing on initial data, determines control data, index data and service data of the initial data, and stores the control data and the index data in the central processing unit. Th...