ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,681, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Devices, methods, apparatuses and media for communication" was invented by Qin Yin (Shanghai), Yi Zhang (Shanghai), Cong Wang (Shanghai), Cheng Bing Li (Shanghai), Song He (Shanghai) and Hai Jun Lu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and media for communication. A device for communication is configured to generate target data for the optical network unit based on template data for an optical network unit set and instance data for an optical network unit in the op...