ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,746, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Data analysis method and apparatus" was invented by Weiwei Chong (Shenzhen, China), Yang Xin (Shanghai) and Xiaobo Wu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a data analysis method and an apparatus. In the method, a data analysis network element sends a first request message to a security network element, where the first request message is used to request to perform security detection on first data, and the first data is data for which the data analysis network element performs data analysis on a specified data...