ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,253, issued on June 23, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus for external devices, electronic device, and storage medium" was invented by Haifei Zhao (Shenzhen, China), Lulu Li (Shenzhen, China), Ruxuan Jiao (Shenzhen, China), Feng Lv (Shenzhen, China) and Linsong Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a communication method and apparatus for an external device, allocating an IP address to the external device to access the base station, wherein the external device is connected to the base station through an Ethernet interface of a destination device; searching corr...