ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,163, issued on July 29, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"5G SA network-based call method, electronic device, and system" was invented by Yujuan Shen (Shanghai), Wei Huang (Shanghai), Fengguang Qiu (Shanghai) and Jian Luo (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal first connects to a 5th generation (5G) standalone (SA) network and initiates a call to another terminal by using a Voice over New Radio (VoNR) technology. When the terminal fails to call the other terminal, the terminal disconnects from the 5G SA network, connects to a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network, and then automatically initia...