ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,717, issued on July 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Ruonan Yang (Hangzhou, China), Ying Chen (Hangzhou, China) and Jun Wang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal device determines N1 HARQ feedback disabling processes corresponding to a first uplink feedback slot, where N1 is a positive integer; and the terminal device determines, based on N1 pieces of DCI corresponding to the N1 HARQ feedback disabling processes, whether to perform HARQ feedback in the first uplink feedback slot, where the N1 HARQ feedback disabling processes...