ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,570, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Chong Lou (Shanghai), Qiang Fan (Shanghai), Xiaoying Xu (Shenzhen, China) and Feng Han (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and apparatus. The method may be applied to a 4G system, a 5G system, and/or a future communication system such as a 6G system. The method includes: a splitting protocol layer entity of a terminal device configures a first sequence number SN of a splitting protocol layer in a first splitting protocol layer data packet, and configures a second SN ...