ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,745, issued on April 21, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Chenchen Liu (Shenzhen, China), Meihong Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Wei Wang (Nanjing, China), Shuyu Shi (Nanjing, China), Xiao Han (Shenzhen, China), Rui Du (Shenzhen, China), Jian Yu (Shenzhen, China), Yunbo Li (Shenzhen, China) and Yingxiang Sun (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: A first node sends a threshold and a first packet to a second node. Correspondingly, the second node receives the threshold and the first packet from the first node. Then, the second n...