ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,337, issued on April 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communications method and apparatus" was invented by Lei Gao (Beijing), Jian Wang (Beijing) and Xingqing Cheng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides communications methods and apparatuses. In an implementation, a first communications apparatus determines a second resource pool, wherein the first communications apparatus is a master node of a first communications domain and the first communications apparatus is used to schedule resource in the first resource pool of the first communications domain. The first communica...