ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,786, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Rui Lyu (Chengdu, China), Bofang Zheng (Shenzhen, China) and Xinhua Xiao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method, apparatus, and system are provided, and belong to the field of communication technologies. The method includes: After receiving a first electromagnetic wave signal sent by a first adjacent node, a target third node performs target processing on the first electromagnetic wave signal to obtain a second electromagnetic wave signal, and sends the ...