ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,305, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Group creation method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Qi Yao (Beijing), Qianghua Zhu (Beijing) and Wenfu Wu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A group creation method, an apparatus, and a system, the method including receiving, by a group management network element on a first network, a group creation request requesting creation of a group for local area network communication, allocating, by the group management network element on the first network, a group identifier to the group, sending, by the group management network element...