ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,347, issued on April 14, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data transmission and reception techniques for handover scenarios" was invented by Liping Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Ying Huang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a data packet transmission method and apparatus, communication node and medium. The method includes transmitting a handover request message that includes information for a target donor node to forward data; and receiving retransmission data packets forwarded by the target donor node."

The patent was filed on Nov. 9, 2020, under Application No. 17/909,670.

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