ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,878, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Data swapping method and apparatus" was invented by Fan Guo (Shenzhen, China), Xiongfeng Wang (Hangzhou, China) and Yongqiang Liu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data swapping method is disclosed. The data swapping method is applied to a host. An operating system and a target application are installed on the host. The operating system includes user space. A user interface of the target application is disposed in the user space. The user interface corresponds to one storage device. In an example embodiment, the host obtains a sw...