ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,246, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Device discovery and registration method and network-side device" was invented by Huazhang Lv (Chang'an Dongguan, China) and Xiaowan Ke (Chang'an Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a device discovery and registration method, and a network-side device. The device discovery method includes: receiving, by a first communication device, first information sent by a second communication device, where the first information includes at least one of first location information of a to-be-discovered local device a...