ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,317, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Nannan Liu (Beijing), Junren Chang (Beijing) and Bingzhao Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method includes determining, by a terminal device, that a second new data indicator (NDI) is toggled in response to a first condition being met. The second NDI is associated with a second resource. The method also includes receiving, by the terminal device, a second data. The second data is transmitted on the second resource. The second resource is associated with a second hybrid...