ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,923, issued on March 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Rate adaptation method and apparatus" was invented by Li Xu (Shenzhen, China), Qiwen Zhong (Shenzhen, China) and Rixin Li (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology of this application relates to a rate adaptation method and apparatus. The method includes, when a rate adaptation requirement exists, inserting a rate adaptation code block only between two adjacent code blocks whose code block relationship meets a preset condition, or deleting only a rate adaptation code block between two code blocks whose code block relationshi...