ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,228, issued on May 20, was assigned to Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co. Ltd. (Gui'an, China).

"Software code change method and apparatus" was invented by Guangtai Liang (Beijing), Tianyong Wu (Shenzhen, China), Xiao Cheng (Shanghai), Zeyu Wang (Beijing) and Zhao Wei (Gui'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a software code change method, an apparatus determines to-be-changed software code and change configuration information according to an instruction of a user. The apparatus selects, from stored changers based on the change configuration information, a plurality of changers to be called to implement changes to the sof...