ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,150, issued on July 15, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data processing method and apparatus based on blockchain network, device, and storage medium" was invented by Zimin Chen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing method based on a blockchain network includes: transmitting a first data clearing request to a consensus node of the blockchain network and receiving claim data returned by the consensus node in response to the first data clearing request, the returned claim data being claim data associated with a holder node in the blockchain network obtained by clearing; generat...