ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,835, issued on June 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Power-saving communication method and apparatus for accessing cellular networks" was invented by Bingzhao Li (Beijing) and Zhe Jin (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and apparatus is provided. The method includes: camping on a first cell by a terminal device. The method further includes: determining, by the terminal device, to access a second cell in response to: receiving a paging message from the first cell, determining that there is to-be-transmitted uplink information, or determining that there is a to-be-transmitt...