ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,408, issued on July 21, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Data transmission method, and power line communication apparatus and system" was invented by Xuepeng Kong (Dongguan, China), Dao Pan (Dongguan, China), Zefeng Lin (Dongguan, China), Li Xu (Dongguan, China) and Qian Li (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide a data transmission method applied to power line communication, and a power line communication apparatus and system. The data transmission method includes: a power line node generates a data frame, where the data frame includes a first field, a ...