ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,726, issued on May 13, was assigned to PETAL CLOUD TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Method for processing application program and related product" was invented by Deqian Liu (Shenzhen, China) and Rubo Xu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing an application program includes steps for a non-service system to obtain a first running instruction from a user for running a target first service system. Sending, by a terminal, a key acquiring request to a digital rights management (DRM) server using the non-service system, requesting key information corresponding to the target first service system. The...