ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,745, issued on March 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication port management method and related device" was invented by Yang Yu (Dongguan, China), Qinxian Lin (Dongguan, China) and Yida Wen (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application disclose example communication port management methods and example related devices to manage a plurality of communication ports on a communication device connection panel. One example method includes obtaining at least two local images of the communication device connection panel, where each local image corresponds to one loc...