ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,150, issued on July 28, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and communication apparatus" was invented by Yan Cheng (Shanghai) and Limin Xia (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a handover process, a source base station can send information about a band combination to a target base station (such as a master base station). The band combination includes a band of the target base station and a band of a secondary base station. After receiving the information about the band combination, the target base station can add the secondary base station in the handover process or add the se...