ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,426, issued on July 7, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and related apparatus" was invented by Rui Ni (Shenzhen, China), Qian Zhu (Shenzhen, China), Yi Lv (Shenzhen, China) and Kai Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes sending a first orbital angular momentum (OAM) reference signal in a first beam direction. The first OAM reference signal is used to determine a second beam direction from the first beam direction. The method also includes receiving first indication information. The first indication information includes information about the second bea...