ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,746, issued on April 21, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Information processing method and apparatus, communication device, and storage medium" was invented by Yang Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for processing information, a base station sends effective condition information for a reference signal. A user equipment receives the effective condition information for a reference signal. The effective condition information is configured to indicate an effective condition for using the reference signal for a first use."

The patent was filed on Jan. 13, 2021, under Application ...