ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,353, issued on July 7, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data processing and communication methods, memory, communication terminal, apparatus, and device" was invented by Chengfang Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing method includes: sending a network signal application request, and in response to a reception of a second network signal application instruction, obtaining uplink data of a communication terminal and controlling the communication terminal to turn off a communication module of the communication terminal, wherein the communication module comprises a baseband chip and is configur...