ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,273, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Guanding Yu (Hangzhou, China), Xinyi Xu (Hangzhou, China), Shengli Liu (Hangzhou, China) and Jian Wang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium are provided to improve the efficiency of federated learning by determining a modulation and coding scheme that maximizes training efficiency of a second learning model. The modulation and coding scheme is used for processing information about a first learning model of a firs...