ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,241, issued on March 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Hongping Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Qinghai Zeng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A core network element includes a processor, and a non-transitory memory coupled to the processor. The non-transitory memory is configured to store non-transitory instructions, and in response to being executed by the processor, cause the core network element to perform operations including generating, by a first artificial intelligence (AI) protocol layer of the core network element, an AI parameter. T...