ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,897, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Yishan Xu (Shanghai), Shiyong Tan (Shenzhen, China), Hualin Zhu (Shanghai), Chuan Ma (Shanghai) and He Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access network device obtains first information, where the access network device supports a 3rd generation partnership project 3GPP access technology; the access network device establishes a user plane connection to a first terminal device based on the first information; and the access network device obtains user plane data of the first terminal...