ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,339, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Bin Xu (Beijing), Lei Chen (Beijing) and Bingzhao Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a communication method and apparatus. A transmitting apparatus performs first security processing on first control data of a user plane to obtain second control data. The first security processing comprises at least one of encryption processing or integrity protection processing. Furthermore, a packet header of the second control data comprises first security indication informa...