ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,045, issued on May 13, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Configuration method and apparatus, binding method and apparatus, and device, sending node, receiving node and medium" was invented by Qilei Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a configuration method and apparatus, a binding method and apparatus, a device, a sending node, a receiving node, and a medium. The configuration method includes determining a multiplexing structure of an optical layer channel and configuring channel identification information for a target node according to the multiplexing structure. The channel identification i...