ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,230, issued on June 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Switching method and communication apparatus" was invented by Jia Liu (Shanghai), Chaoyi Yan (Dongguan, China) and Siduo Shen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching method includes receiving, by a source network device, N pieces of data channel quality information. The N pieces of data channel quality information are in a one-to-one correspondence with N candidate network devices. Each of the N pieces of data channel quality information is used to indicate coverage quality of a data channel between a terminal device and a candidate...