ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,802, issued on June 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Yishan Xu (Shanghai) and Hualin Zhu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide a communication method and apparatus, and relate to the communication field. The method in embodiments of this application includes: A control network element determines to use a same transmission path as a second service data flow for a first service data flow. The control network element sends first indication information to a target network element, where the first indication ...