ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,986, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Node scheduling method and apparatus" was invented by Deshi Ye (Hangzhou, China), Songyang Chen (Hangzhou, China) and Jian Wang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first node obtains local processing time separately corresponding to a plurality of second nodes and/or uploading time of local processing results separately corresponding to the plurality of second nodes. The first node soils sequence numbers of the plurality of second nodes based on the local processing time and/or the uploading time, to obtain a first sequence. The fir...