ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,636, issued on May 20, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Data processing method, information configuration method, terminal, and network device" was invented by Yanxia Zhang (Dongguan, China) and Yumin Wu (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing method includes: determining, by a PDCP entity of a terminal, at least one first transmission path corresponding to PDCP duplication that needs to be changed from an activated state to a deactivated state, from a transmission path set corresponding to PDCP duplication and including at least one transmission path currently in an act...