ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,186, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Method and apparatus for generating physical network topology" was invented by Xiquan Zhang (Dongguan, China), Xianyin Li (Shenzhen, China), Jiahong Wei (Shenzhen, China) and Yu Li (Dongguan, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes a gateway node that obtains a data transmission parameter between a first-level node and each node in a first node set, where the first-level node is located on a first-level power distribution device in a power distribution grid, and the first node set includes a node located on a power distribution de...