ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,380, issued on March 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communications method and device" was invented by Chuting Yao (Beijing), Yanzhao He (Shenzhen, China), Yiru Kuang (Beijing), Haibo Xu (Beijing) and Jian Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: determining, by a terminal device, that assistance information of the terminal device can be sent to a first network device through a signaling radio bearer (SRB) 3, wherein the terminal device is connected to at least two network devices, and the first network device is a secondary network device in the at least two network devic...