ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,805, issued on March 31, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Mao Yang (Xi'an, China), Zhongjiang Yan (Xi'an, China), Yiqing Li (Shenzhen, China), Yunbo Li (Shenzhen, China), Jian Yu (Shenzhen, China) and Ming Gan (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus and a communication method are disclosed. According to the communication method, a first device sends a block acknowledgment request frame to a second device. The block acknowledgment request frame is used to request the second device to send a block acknowledgment frame...