ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,383, issued on March 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Yawei Yu (Shenzhen, China), Zhiheng Guo (Beijing) and Ruixiang Ma (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method includes determining a third time unit and a fourth time unit. The third time unit includes all or a part of time units that are in at least one first time unit and that are used for transmission in a first transmission direction. A first signal is transmitted in the at least one first time unit in the first transmission direction based on a quantity of repeat...