ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,661, issued on July 1, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Cross-device communications method and apparatus, device, and storage medium" was invented by Shuanglin Cai (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device receives a call request of a calling party, where the call request includes identification information of a called first terminal device; calls the first terminal device and at least one second terminal device based on the identification information of the first terminal device, where identification information of the second terminal device and the first terminal device has a corr...