ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,460, issued on July 1, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data encryption method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by Weiming Yang (Shenzhen, China), Shaoming Wang (Shenzhen, China), Runzeng Guo (Shenzhen, China) and Huizhong Tang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data encryption method includes: acquiring target data to be encrypted of a target object and object information corresponding to the target object, the object information including at least one of a face image or an audio signal of the target object; encrypting an object feature corresponding to the...