ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,121, issued on March 18, was assigned to TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LTD (Shenzhen, China).

"Data processing method and apparatus, device, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Fangcheng Fu (Shenzhen, China), Jie Jiang (Shenzhen, China), Junwei Pan (Shenzhen, China), Chen Hou (Shenzhen, China), Huanran Xue (Shenzhen, China), Yong Cheng (Shenzhen, China), Yuhong Liu (Shenzhen, China), Peng Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Yangyu Tao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing method includes: acquiring a first intersection set, acquiring a second intersection set, calculating an intersection ...