ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,255, issued on June 10, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Device management based on blockchain network" was invented by Jinming Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Jun Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Runzeng Guo (Shenzhen, China), Shaoming Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Shiyou Sun (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method, device information of a characteristic acquisition device associated with a target terminal is acquired in response to a triggering operation for establishing an association relationship between the characteristic acquisition device and a target client in the target terminal. The device in...