ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,254, issued on July 28, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and communication apparatus" was invented by Zijia Hu (Chengdu, China), Longxin Liu (Shenzhen, China), Xiaobin Jiang (Shanghai) and Wei Wen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application disclose a communication method and a communication apparatus, to establish two intra-frequency co-coverage cells within a same frequency band, and arrange time-frequency resources respectively used by the two cells in a time division or frequency division manner to avoid co-channel interference, so that the two cell...