ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,806, issued on May 26, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and communication apparatus" was invented by Yu Wang (Hangzhou, China), Hejia Luo (Hangzhou, China), Yunfei Qiao (Hangzhou, China), Ying Chen (Hangzhou, China), Xiaolu Wang (Hangzhou, China) and Rong Li (Boulogne Billancourt, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a communication method, to meet a requirement of a positioning service, a first communication apparatus obtains data to be processed, and determines a first frame structure that includes a communication time period and a positioning time period. A first switching t...