ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,868, issued on March 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Data transmission method and apparatus" was invented by Shengyue Dou (Shenzhen, China), Jingwang Ma (Shenzhen, China), Shuri Liao (Shenzhen, China), Kedi Wu (Shenzhen, China), Yuejun Wei (Shenzhen, China) and Zhenfei Tang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a data transmission method and an apparatus. In the method, a first data unit is received from a server or a data network, wherein the first data unit comprises first identification information and second identification information, a target transmissio...