ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,655, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data association query method and apparatus, device, and storage medium" was invented by Taibao Wang (Shenzhen, China), Donghui Xu (Shenzhen, China), Yaofeng Tu (Shenzhen, China), Qiang Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Dezheng Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a data association query method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The data association query method includes the following: parsing a data query statement to obtain association query information, where the association query information includes query key information of a ...