ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,951, issued on July 15, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Block chain-based data processing method and related apparatus" was invented by Haoming Feng (Shenzhen, China), Yong Zhao (Shenzhen, China), Shipeng Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Shengqian Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a block chain-based data processing method performed by a computer device, including: acquiring a pending transaction including a pending execution order identifier; adding, when determining that the pending transaction is in the prepared state, the pending transaction and the pending ex...