ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,671, issued on July 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data transmission method and apparatus" was invented by Caixia Qi (Shanghai), Han Zhou (Shanghai) and Hancheng Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data transmission method and apparatus are provided. One example method involves establishing two tunnels between an access network device and a user plane function network element, where the two tunnels may be tunnels used for downlink data transmission or tunnels used for uplink data transmission. When communicating with the user plane function network element, the access network device may t...