ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,812, issued on March 24, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method for switching transmission mode and core network element" was invented by Jianhua Liu (Guangdong, China), Qianxi Lu (Guangdong, China), Haorui Yang (Guangdong, China) and Shukun Wang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application refers to a method for switching transmission mode and a core network element. The method includes: a core network element sends first indication information to a user plane function entity, the first indication information being used to indicate to send, to a shared channel, mult...