ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,285, issued on April 29, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method, CP device, and NAT device" was invented by Rongrong Hua (Nanjing, China), Zhouyi Yu (Beijing) and Tao Peng (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a communication method, a CP device, and a NAT device; pertains to the field of communication technologies; and relate to a scenario of performing NAT tracing based on a CU-separated BNG. The CP device delivers, to the NAT device, an IP address assigned to a user. Under a trigger condition of receiving the IP address delivered by the CP device, the...