ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,954, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and information processing apparatus" was invented by Xingqing Cheng (Beijing), Lei Gao (Beijing), Guanjun Ni (Shanghai) and Jian Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "First information is sent using a multicast resource to a communication apparatus group that includes at least two communication apparatuses. Feedback information is detected, on a shared unified time-frequency resource, from at least one communication apparatus in the communication apparatus group, where the feedback information indicates that there is...