ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,814, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Method of controlling a terminal and communication device" was invented by Wei Hong (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and computer readable medium for improving a wireless communication system. The wireless communication system is improved by: receiving a handover request acknowledgement message from a second network device, sending control information to the terminal to control the terminal, wherein the control information indicates a control action corresponding to a type of the second network device."

The patent was...