ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,174, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Information obtaining method and apparatus" was invented by Cuili Ge (Beijing) and Yanmei Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example information obtaining methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes receiving information about a first instance of an application and information about a second instance of the application by a first server from a second server and a third server respectively. The first server stores the information about the first instance and the information about the second instance."

The patent w...