ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,807, issued on May 26, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and communication apparatus" was invented by Yu Wang (Hangzhou, China), Yunfei Qiao (Hangzhou, China), Hejia Luo (Hangzhou, China), Ying Chen (Hangzhou, China) and Rong Li (Boulogne Billancourt, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and a communication apparatus are provided. The method includes: obtaining, by a first satellite, a PDU, where the PDU includes first information, the first information includes an identifier of a UPF agent, and the identifier of the UPF agent indicates one of one or more UPF ...