ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,541, issued on June 3, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Pre-execution of block chain transaction in parallel during block consensus" was invented by Qucheng Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transaction data processing method includes executing M transactions among N transactions in parallel during a process of packing the N transactions into a block and performing block consensus on the block, to obtain first transaction execution results. The method further includes identifying, after the block consensus succeeds, transactions identical to the M transactions as a first type of trans...