US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on May 13 for "Information acquisition method and apparatus, graphic code generation method and apparatus, terminal, and medium" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,991, issued on May 13, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Information acquisition method and apparatus, graphic code generation method and apparatus, terminal, and medium" was invented by Zhiyuan Lin (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information acquisition method includes displaying a code scanning interface, performing a code scanning operation on a target graphic code of a first provider based on the code scanning interface, the target graphic code being configured to trigger a search based on a keyword; and displaying a first search result associated with a first provider and a second...