ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,711, issued on May 19, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Xianfeng Du (Chengdu, China), Oupeng Li (Chengdu, China) and Jia He (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and apparatus are provided. The communication apparatus communicates with a device to obtain first information that includes location information and/or motion information of the device, and senses an environment to obtain environment sensing information that includes location information and/or motion information of an object in the environment. The communicat...