ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,158, issued on March 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Shuo Liu (Shenzhen, China), Qiaoling Wang (Shenzhen, China), Jianfei He (Shenzhen, China) and Junyi Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and apparatus relating to the field of communication technologies. The method includes a network device receives at least two packets, and aggregates the at least two packets to obtain aggregated packets. Messages to which the at least two packets separately belong have a same message index. The message index is used to ...