ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,058, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Network topology display method and communication apparatus" was invented by Changsheng Sun (Nanjing, China) and Yufei Tang (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application disclose a network topology display method and a communication apparatus to improve availability and visualization effect of a network management and control system. In one embodiment, a communication apparatus obtains a multi-level subnet topology structure, determines a subnet density of a first network element based on a layout setting of a user...