ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,507, issued on April 7, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzen, China).

"Data transmission method, device, and system" was invented by Hualin Zhu (Shanghai), Huan Li (Shenzhen, China) and Weisheng Jin (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a data transmission method, a first communication device obtains a data packet in a first direction, and obtains a data packet in a second direction. The two data packet correspond to a same service. If the first direction is an uplink direction, the second direction is a downlink direction; or if the first direction is a downlink direction, the second direction is an uplink dir...