ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,411, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"DNS query method and device" was invented by Huazhang Lv (Dongguan, China), Xiaobo Wu (Dongguan, China) and Xiaowan Ke (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A DNS query method includes receiving, by a first communication device, a DNS query to obtain an FQDN; sending, by the first communication device, first information to a second communication device, where the first information includes the FQDN or N server IP addresses corresponding to the FQDN, and N is a positive integer; obtaining, by the first communication device, server...