ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,633, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Data transmission method and apparatus" was invented by Hong Wang (Beijing), Bingzhao Li (Beijing), Zonghui Xie (Shenzhen, China), Lei Chen (Beijing) and Baokun Shan (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving downlink data, where the downlink data is used to be sent to a terminal device; receiving first information from a second network device, where the first information is used to determine a time point for sending the downlink data to the s...