ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,236, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Charging method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Yishan Xu (Shanghai), Hualin Zhu (Shanghai), Haoren Zhu (Shanghai) and Yu Zhou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first network element or an access network device determines, based on identification information of one or more terminals on which a first operation is performed and type information of the first operation, quantity information of the first operation that is performed, and the first network element sends charging information including the type information and the quantit...