ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,206, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Address assignment method, node determining method and apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Delei Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: a first node obtains an address of a second node based on an address of the first node, where the address of the first node includes m bits, where the address of the second node includes m+n bits, where high-order m bits of the address of the second node are the same as low-order m bits of the address of the first node, and where m and n each are an integer greater than 0; and t...