ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,228, issued on March 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Hongping Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Qinghai Zeng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An artificial intelligence (AI) protocol layer of a first access network device generates an AI parameter, and sends the AI parameter to a terminal device. Then, the first access network device receives, from the terminal device, AI data obtained based on the AI parameter. The AI protocol layer of the first access network device is an upper layer of a radio resource control (RRC) protocol layer of the fi...