ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,891, issued on April 29, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for accessing application and apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium" was invented by Jiajun Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for accessing software applications. The method includes obtaining an application access request, the application access request carrying a user identifier and an application identifier; acquiring an encryption key, and encrypting the user identifier by the encryption key, to obtain an encrypted user identifier, the encryption key carrying first key information and s...