ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,671, issued on March 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Service processing method and apparatus and device" was invented by Wei Su (Dongguan, China), Qiuyou Wu (Shenzhen, China) and Yujie Chen (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A service processing method and apparatus and a device is disclosed. Synchronization headers of four 66b code blocks are removed, and a 1-bit code block type indication is added as control information of service data, to be encoded as a 257b code block. This avoids a bandwidth waste caused by the synchronization headers, and improves bandwidth utilization. When a...