ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,819, issued on March 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Transmission pipe configuration method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Yu Zheng (Dongguan, China) and Wei Chen (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission pipe configuration method, including receiving a device address of a first network domain, a device address of a second network domain from, generating an identifier of a transmission pipe based on the device address of the first network domain and the device address of the second network domain, where the transmission pipe connects a first border transport device and...