ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,396, issued on July 14, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Core network element, access-network device, and terminal device" was invented by Yali Guo (Dongguan, China) and Xinlei Yu (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A core network element, an access-network device, and a terminal device are provided. The core network element includes a transceiver, a memory configured to store computer programs, and a processor configured to execute the computer programs to: cause the transceiver to receive a first sensing instruction from a first core network element, wherein the fir...