ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,757, issued on May 5, was assigned to HONOR DEVICE Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Ruiqing Zhao (Shenzhen, China) and Qiao Luo (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a communication method and an apparatus. The method includes: accessing, by an electronic device, a first network; performing network probing on the first network, where it is detected that the Internet cannot be accessed through the first network; and transmitting, in the first network and a second network, to-be-transmitted data through a network that matches the to-be-transmitted data, w...