ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,529, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Patch reuse method and system, and electronic device" was invented by Wenjie Ren (Beijing), Hongxi Li (Beijing), Yonghong Yin (Beijing) and Yingwei Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patch reuse method, applied to a system that includes a plurality of devices and a patch server, where the patch server is configured to provide patches for the plurality of devices, the plurality of devices are located in a same local area network, and the plurality of devices include at least a first electronic device and a second electronic devi...