ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,850, issued on July 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for obtaining installation information of network access device" was invented by Yongbo Zeng (Shenzhen, China), Hongyue Wang (Shenzhen, China), Cheng Qin (Beijing), Hui Jin (Shenzhen, China) and Lingjun Liu (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for obtaining installation information of a network access device. The network access device may be CPE. When a user installs the CPE, after the user uses a terminal device to send a request for obtaining installation information of the CPE to a network ...