ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,051, issued on July 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data transmission method and electronic device" was invented by Ming Chang (Shanghai), Siqing Du (Nanjing, China), Peiyu Yue (Nanjing, China) and Maobin Fan (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data transmission method and an electronic device are provided. One uplink interface and one downlink interface are deployed on each input device of the electronic device. The uplink interface is connected to a processor or an upper-level input device, and the downlink interface is connected to a lower-level input device. A processing module i...