ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,199, issued on July 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method, apparatus, and system for verifying identity of user equipment by network device" was invented by Zhongding Lei (Singapore), Haiguang Wang (Singapore) and Xin Kang (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: Second user equipment sends a second message, first user equipment sends a first message to a network device in response to the second message, to request to perform identity verification on the second user equipment, and the network device verifies whe...