ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,278, issued on March 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Bearer modification method and access network device" was invented by Yu Yin (Shanghai), Caixia Qi (Shanghai) and Zhenyu Tao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearer modification method and an access network device. The method includes determining, by an access network device, that a terminal device completes a complete registration procedure, or determining that the terminal device does not complete the complete registration procedure, and waiting for the terminal device to complete the complete registration procedure, and modifying,...