ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,020, issued on May 5, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Frequency hopping communication method for short-distance wireless communication, and related device" was invented by Tong Chen (Shanghai), Han Lu (Shenzhen, China), Zehong Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Bixiang Hu (Shenzhen, China), Yufei Yang (Shenzhen, China), Rui Cui (Shanghai) and Shaojie Xue (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A frequency hopping communication method for short-distance wireless communication between a primary device and a secondary device comprises switching by the primary device from the second frequency hopping sequenc...