ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,546, issued on July 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Data transmission method and communication apparatus" was invented by Chenchen Liu (Shenzhen, China), Mingjiang Wu (Chengdu, China), Xianfu Lei (Chengdu, China) and Xiaohu Tang (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data transmission method and a communication apparatus are disclosed. The method includes: A first device receives a trigger frame, where the trigger frame indicates a resource unit (RU) allocated to the first device; and the first device sends first data to a second device, where the first data occupies a discrete subcarri...