ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,503, issued on May 27, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data communication method and apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium" was invented by Yabin Fu (Shenzhen, China) and Huixia Cao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data communication method includes: obtaining application data for an application to connect to a public network for data transmission; determining, according to the application data, whether the application needs to connect to a network slice, and in response to determining that the application needs to connect to a network slice, requesting a network operator to...