ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,227, issued on May 20, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Internet of things communication method and apparatus" was invented by Xiaoqiang Lyu (Dongguan, China) and Jun Zhang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an Internet of Things communication method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving a resource addition request transmitted by a client, where the resource addition request is used to indicate addition of an identification of a reference resource into a collection resource on the first server; performing communication with th...