ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,489, issued on April 7, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method, device, and system" was invented by Tingting Geng (Shanghai), Yedan Wu (Shanghai) and Le Yan (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide a communication method, device, and system, to reduce energy consumption of a terminal device and accelerate reselection performed by the terminal device. In this solution, a network device determines a plurality of sub-areas, and sends area configuration information to the terminal device. The terminal device receives the area configuration infor...