ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,879, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication mode switching method and related apparatus" was invented by Shengfeng Xu (Beijing) and Yanmei Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a communication mode switching method and a related apparatus. The method may include: A first terminal device sends a first message to a second terminal device, where the first message is used to request to switch at least one service between the first terminal device and the second terminal device from a PC5 interface communication mode to a Uu interface communicatio...