ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,616, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Communication method and apparatus for avoiding conflict" was invented by Hongping Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Xingxing Hu (Shanghai), Hongzhuo Zhang (Shanghai) and Qinghai Zeng (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and an apparatus are provided. When a cell served by a distributed unit (DU) of an access network device and a neighboring cell use different timing, the DU may obtain timing configurations of a first cell and a second cell, or a random access channel (RACH) configuration that is of a second cell and that is based...