ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. RE50,623, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to HUAWEI DEVICE Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Method for identifying device, and device" was invented by Yajun Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Yu Zhu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying a device comprising generating, by a control device, an identification identifier of a multimedia device according to device description information of the multimedia device, sending the identification identifier to the multimedia device, so that the multimedia device displays the identification identifier, acquiring, by the control device, the identification identifier displayed by the...