ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,697, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Tingting Geng (Shanghai), Le Yan (Shenzhen, China) and Yedan Wu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: A source network device generates and sends a first message, where the first message is for handing over a terminal device from the source network device to a target network device, the first message includes first indication information, and the first indication information indicates to perform a random access-free proc...