ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,524, issued on May 13, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for cross-application interconnection between different devices and related apparatus" was invented by Zhiwei Ma (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment a method includes displaying, by a first terminal of a communication system, a first interface of a first instant messaging application, wherein the first interface comprises a second user, the second user being a user registered with a second instant messaging application on a second terminal of the communication system, and wherein the first instant messaging application...