ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,936, issued on June 23, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data transmission using connection-less and connection-oriented transmission layer protocols" was invented by Wei Fei (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data transmission method is provided, including: generating session offers of a communication session, and sending the session offers to a destination end based on a connectionless-oriented transmission layer protocol and a connection-oriented transmission layer protocol respectively; determining, based on transmission statuses of session answers fed back by the destinati...