ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,654, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Yong Li (Darmstadt, Germany), Yong Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Jing Chen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method includes: sending a first public key and a signature of the first public key; receiving first information from a second node, where the first information includes an identification (ID) ciphertext; decrypting the ID ciphertext based on a first private key corresponding to the first public key, to obtain an ID of the second node; and sending second information to ...