ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,798, issued on June 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data transmission method and apparatus" was invented by Tianhang Yu (Hangzhou, China), Jian Wang (Hangzhou, China), Chen Xu (Hangzhou, China), Gongzheng Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Rong Li (Hangzhou, China) and Jun Wang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data transmission method and apparatus are described. The method includes a receive end receiving a first parameter, where the first parameter includes a parameter of a probability distribution of a hidden variable. The hidden variable is obtained by encoding first data by using an en...