ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,256, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and device for allocating and obtaining IP address" was invented by Fangyuan Zhu (Beijing) and Yan Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a method for allocating an IP address, including: establishing, by a session management network element, a session for a terminal apparatus, where the session is used for transmitting a data packet via a control plane network element; allocating, by the session management network element, an IP address to the terminal apparatus; and sending, by the session management networ...