ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,506, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd (Shenzhen, China).

"Data transmission method and apparatus" was invented by Kaiyang Qu (Hangzhou, China), Qufang Huang (Shenzhen, China), Xingxing Hu (Shanghai) and Chong Lou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal device generates a report result including at least one of a logged minimization of drive tests report, an RLF report, and an RACH report. The logged minimization of drive tests report includes an identifier of a candidate access cell, information indicating whether the candidate access cell supports a network slice service initiated by the ter...