ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,443, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Network configuration method and apparatus" was invented by De Yu Tian (Hubei, China) and Qi Wang (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a network configuration method. An example includes: acquiring environmental information of two application programs, information indicating hosts where the application programs are located and a communication mode between them; grouping the two application programs according to the information to obtain a program group, wherein each program group comprises at least two application...