ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,204, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"DNS configuration provisioning" was invented by Tingfang Tang (Beijing) and Emmanouil Pateromichelakis (Viersen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for improvement of DNS configuration for applications are disclosed. A method performed at a server comprises generating Domain Name System (DNS) information; deciding whether to transmit the DNS information to a User Equipment (UE) or to a network or to both the UE and the network; and transmitting the DNS information for use with at least one application associated with the UE according to...