ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,406, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Yizhuang Wu (Beijing) and Wanqiang Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a communication method and apparatus. A first mobility management function entity may receive event information from a unified data management function entity, where the event information indicates a first-type terminal event. Therefore, when a terminal apparatus is reachable, the first mobility management function entity may send, based on the event information, a terminal event report to an...