ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,377, issued on May 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for cooperation among devices in transmissions over a UU interface" was invented by Hua Xu (Ottawa), Jianglei Ma (Ottawa) and Liqing Zhang (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses are described for cooperation of two or more devices to improve the transmissions over a Uu interface. A source receives or transmits an indicator indicating a first mode of two modes of cooperation between the source apparatus and at least a first cooperating device. The two modes of cooperation includes a joint communication ...