ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,638, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and related device" was invented by Gang Zheng (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method, an optical head end first determines a first correspondence, where the first correspondence indicates a correspondence between a slave station device identifier and a slave station node identifier. Then the optical head end receives a first message from an optical terminal, where the first message includes device information, the device information includes a first device identifier, and the first device identifier ind...