ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,523, issued on April 7, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Location based data transmission method and apparatus" was invented by Bin Xu (Beijing), Bingzhao Li (Beijing), Zhenzhen Cao (Boulogne Billancourt, France) and Yan Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data transmission method includes receiving, by a first access network device, local service indication information and a service identifier from a core network device. The local service indication information indicates that a service to which a data packet of a first session belongs is a local service. The data transmission method also i...