ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,857, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Information obtaining and sending method and apparatus, and terminal device and network device" was invented by Jinhua Miao (Beijing) and Chunlin Ni (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides information obtaining method and apparatus, information sending method and apparatus, a terminal device and a network device, and pertains to the field of communication technology. The information obtaining method is performed by a terminal device, and includes: sending a request message to a network device, the request messag...