ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,829, issued on May 5, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Communication method and device, and storage medium" was invented by Yuanyuan Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the technical field of communication, and relates to communication methods and devices, and storage media. The method includes: determining, by a terminal, one or more downlink time periods within an inter-frequency measurement gap; and receiving, by the terminal from a serving cell within the downlink time periods, downlink information on an uplink frequency band."

The patent was filed on Feb....