ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,891, issued on May 6, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Haifeng Yu (Beijing) and Feng Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides communication methods and apparatuses. One example method includes that the first access network device obtains a correspondence between the first terminal apparatus and the second terminal apparatus. After obtaining a data packet, the first access network device sends a same data packet to the first terminal apparatus and the second terminal apparatus based on the correspondence, so that the first ter...