ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,568, issued on March 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and related apparatus thereof" was invented by Jinping Hao (Shanghai), Yinghao Guo (Shanghai) and Yinghao Jin (Boulogne Billancourt, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application disclose a communication method and a related apparatus thereof, to implement positioning of a terminal device in a non-connected state. The method in embodiments of this application includes: A terminal device sends a radio resource control RRC resume request message to an access network device; and the terminal device rece...