ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,174, issued on May 13, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and communications apparatus for determining latency of transmission between network elements" was invented by Fang Yu (Shenzhen, China) and Yan Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An SMF network element determines, according to a PCC rule of a flow, a third latency of transmitting the flow from a UPF network element to UE, so that a second latency of transmitting the flow from a flow service provider in a TSN to the UE can be determined based on the third latency and a first latency of transmitting the flow from the fl...