ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,087, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data communication method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by Zongyou Wang (Shenzhen, China), Hu Lan (Shenzhen, China), Pan Liu (Shenzhen, China), Yifang Shi (Shenzhen, China), Kaiban Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Jinsong Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Qucheng Liu (Shenzhen, China), Huankun Huang (Shenzhen, China), Gengliang Zhu (Shenzhen, China) and Zhiyong Liao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide a data communication method performed by a computer device. The method includes...