ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,080, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method, signaling control network element, media control network element and communication system" was invented by Lu Zhang (Guangdong, China), Mengxiao Wang (Guangdong, China), Shilin Chen (Guangdong, China), Tingxiang Shi (Guangdong, China), Yanwei Fang (Guangdong, China), Yongsheng Miao (Guangdong, China), Chengnian Shen (Guangdong, China), Rujun Li (Guangdong, China), Jian Tang (Guangdong, China) and Jun Hong (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method, a signaling control network element, a media control network element ...