ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,837, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Distance measurement method, apparatus, and device, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Zhigang Guo (Shenzhen, China), Mingsong Shao (Beijing), Yufeng Zheng (Nanjing, China), Houming Zhai (Nanjing, China) and Qiulai Guo (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for measuring a distance between connectors of different line cards is described. A first measurement component configured on a first line card sends a measurement signal to a second connector configured on a second line card using a first connector configured on a ...