ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,859, issued on April 21, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Jiajie Tong (Hangzhou, China), Xianbin Wang (Hangzhou, China), Huazi Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Rong Li (Boulogne Billancourt, France) and Jun Wang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and apparatus is provided so that a fading channel can implement a good error correction capability. This helps improve information transmission reliability. The method includes: a transmit end device determines, based on N bit sets, a first sequence and a second sequence that ar...