ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,654, issued on July 1, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Blockchain-based methods and apparatuses for processing data, devices and readable storage mediums" was invented by Haoming Feng (Shenzhen, China), Zheming Yan (Shenzhen, China), Haitao Tu (Shenzhen, China), Libao He (Shenzhen, China) and Jiabao Chen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses methods, apparatus, and storage medium for processing blockchain-based data. The method includes: creating a first world state corresponding to an initial block; updating the first world state according to transactions in t...