ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,657, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Kuikui Li (Shanghai), Qinghai Zeng (Shenzhen, China) and Fei Sun (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with an embodiment, a method includes receiving node configuration information and a first beam set of a first node from the first node; and forwarding the first beam set to form a second beam set of a second node based on the node configuration information, wherein the first beam set and the second beam set each comprise at least one beam."

The patent was filed on May 28, 202...