ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,507, issued on March 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Satellite communication method and apparatus" was invented by Yunfei Qiao (Hangzhou, China), Ying Chen (Hangzhou, China) and Rong Li (Boulogne Billancourt, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A satellite communication method and apparatus are provided, to reduce the signaling overhead of downlink control information delivered by a satellite and that indicates beam switching when a plurality of communication apparatuses need to simultaneously perform a beam switch. In the method, a plurality of communication apparatuses are grouped based on g...