ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,242, issued on April 7, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Method for sending multimodal data" was invented by Wei Hong (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multimodal data sending method includes: acquiring at least one piece of data, wherein each of the at least one piece of data has a different modality; determining the identifier corresponding to the modality of each piece of data; and sending at least one piece of data and at least one identifier to a centralized processing device. The identifier corresponding to the modality of each piece of data can be determined, such that not only can at...