ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,577, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus for multi-node synchronous transmission" was invented by Haisen Zhang (Beijing), Hongyu Xiang (Beijing), Bin Xu (Beijing), Bingzhao Li (Beijing) and Lei Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: A first node determines a sending time point of a second PDCP PDU based on first sending status information from a second node, where the first sending status information is associated with a first PDCP PDU, so that the first node can adjust the s...