ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,495, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Frequency hopping method and apparatus" was invented by Xuemei Qiao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A frequency hopping method is performed by a terminal device, and includes: determining a frequency hopping pattern of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); determining at least one of a number of hops or a time-domain length of a hop, wherein a transmission pattern of the PUSCH is transport block processing over multi-slots (TBoMS); and performing frequency hopping according to the frequency hopping pattern of the PUSCH, and the at ...