ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,664, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Data transmission method and communication apparatus" was invented by Miao Li (Wuhan, China), Weimin Wu (Wuhan, China) and Zhao Shen (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data transmission method and a communication apparatus to improve transmission timeliness. In a wireless local area network, one channel transmission opportunity is obtained by an access point AP through contention. The AP sends service data to a station STA, and the STA feeds back a first data frame in which an error occurs in the service data to the AP. The AP sends ...