ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,688, issued on July 15, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data transmission method and apparatus" was invented by Jianmin Lu (Shenzhen, China), Fan Wang (Shanghai) and Zhang Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: obtaining a first sequence, where the first sequence includes T first subsequences; determining T encoding vectors based on the T first subsequences; generating T second subsequences based on one or more codebooks and the T encoding vectors, where each first subsequence corresponds to one column vector group in the one or more codebooks, and a column vector group corr...