ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,638, issued on July 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods and apparatus for logical channel aggregation" was invented by Hao Bi (Lake Zurich, Ill.), Jialin Zou (Randolph, N.J.), Yunsong Yang (San Diego) and Mazin Ali Al-Shalash (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a radio link control (RLC) entity of a communication equipment includes the RLC entity being configured for receiving data over a plurality of logical channels, the RLC entity receiving RLC protocol data units (PDUs) generated by a plurality of transmitting RLC entities over a plurality of logical chann...