ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,767, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Device communication method and apparatus based on MQTT protocol" was invented by Yimu Sun (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a device communication method and apparatus based on an MQTT protocol. The device communication method is performed by an MQTT topic management server and includes: receiving a first message reported by a controlled node, wherein the first message comprises a device Identifier (ID) of the controlled node; generating a random topic corresponding to the device ID of the controlled node, and returning the random topic to...