ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,345, issued on July 21, was assigned to LENOVO (BEIJING) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Line diagnosis method and apparatus" was invented by Jun Wang (Beijing) and Zhijie Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A line diagnosis method includes, in a situation that a first interface of a first device is connected to a second interface of a second device, obtaining first interface information of the first interface and second interface information of the second interface, and diagnosing a line connection between the first device and the second device based on the first interface information and the second interface information."

The patent was f...