ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,657, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for redundant transmission to support high data transmission reliability" was invented by Zhuoyun Zhang (Beijing), Genadi Velev (Darmstadt, Germany), Dimitrios Karampatsis (Ruislip, Great Britain) and Chenxi Zhu (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is related to a method and apparatus for redundant transmission to support high data transmission reliability. A method for redundant transmission to support high data transmission reliability includes deciding to add a redundant entity for a first User Plane Functi...