ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,772, issued on April 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for determining data buffer status, and apparatus" was invented by Yunbo Li (Shenzhen, China), Ming Gan (Shenzhen, China), Yuchen Guo (Shenzhen, China), Yifan Zhou (Shenzhen, China) and Yiqing Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application disclose a method for determining a data buffer status, and an apparatus. The method includes: A first MLD receives first indication information from a second MLD, and determines, based on the first indication information and a correspondence between an association id...