ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,703, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Domain name system determination" was invented by Dimitrios Karampatsis (Ruislip, Great Britain), Apostolis Salkintzis (Athens, Greece) and Genadi Velev (Darmstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for domain name system determination. One method includes transmitting, from a first network function, first instructions to a second network function. The first instructions indicate forwarding DNS requests received from an application in a first device to the first network function. The method includes ...