ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,872, issued on June 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Xingxing Hu (Shanghai), Hongping Zhang (Shanghai), Rui Wang (Shanghai) and Huiming Sun (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and apparatus are provided, to resolve a problem that a terminal device may fail to normally communicate with a network side when an SCG is suspended and a link problem occurs in an MCG or a signal quality of the MCG deteriorates, so that communication reliability is improved. The communication method and the apparatus are applicable to a communi...