ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,554, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and related apparatus" was invented by Huiying Zhu (Shanghai), Pengpeng Dong (Shanghai) and Zhiyuan Tan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method related to an extended reality (XR) service or another low-latency service is provided. In a multi-hop scenario, after receiving a data packet sent by a previous-hop node and an encoding coefficient of the data packet relative to an original data packet, a forwarding node first determines a newest encoding coefficient based on the encoding coefficient received ...