ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,128, issued on May 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data transmission method and apparatus" was invented by Yibin Zhuo (Shenzhen, China), Mingzeng Dai (Shenzhen, China), Jing Liu (Shanghai), Yuanping Zhu (Shanghai) and Zhenzhen Cao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes receiving, by a first IAB node, N data packets from a donor base station to a terminal device. The first IAB node can determine a PDCP PDU SN of a first data packet in PDCP PDU SNs of the N data packets, where the PDCP PDU SN of the first data packet is a largest PDCP PDU SN in the PDCP PDU SNs of the N ...