ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,843, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Route configuration method and apparatus" was invented by Qi Yao (Beijing), Wenfu Wu (Shanghai) and Zaifeng Zong (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A route configuration method includes determining, by a session management network element, that a first terminal in a first group is allowed to communicate with a second terminal in a second group. The route configuration method further includes sending, by the session management network element, first forwarding information to a first user plane network element. The first user plane netwo...