ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,697, issued on May 5, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus to optimize a measurement policy" was invented by Miao Wang (Shenzhen, China), Xi Xie (Beijing) and Junren Chang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and apparatus to optimize a measurement policy are described. The apparatus may receive a measurement configuration sent by a network device. The measurement configuration may include a first identity and a first period of the first identity. The apparatus sends a measurement report to the network device when the first period expires. The mea...