ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,428, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Data processing method and related device" was invented by Xin Xiao (Nanjing, China), Yuming Xie (Nanjing, China), Zhongyu Wang (Nanjing, China), Yunpeng Gao (Nanjing, China) and Wei Song (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing method where an analysis device obtains first network data and historical fault propagation paths and processes the first network data to obtain a first fault propagation path. When the historical fault propagation paths include a target fault propagation path that is the same as the first fault p...