ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,046, issued on June 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and communication apparatus" was invented by Mingyu Zhao (Shanghai), Xueqiang Yan (Shanghai), Jianjun Wu (Shanghai) and Xueli An (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and a communication system. The method may include: A first network device generates a node identifier, where the node identifier includes a global part and a local part, and the global part is determined based on geographical location information of a region covered by a second network device in which a node is located, for example, the ...