ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,423, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus based on determining proxy call network elements" was invented by Yishan Xu (Shanghai), Hualin Zhu (Shanghai), Shufeng Shi (Xi'an, China) and Haoren Zhu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example communication methods and apparatuses are provided. One example method includes receiving, by a session management network element, first information from user equipment, where the first information indicates a target IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) network to which the user equipment requests to connect, the target...