ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,614, issued on June 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Fengwei Liu (Chengdu, China), Minghui Xu (Shenzhen, China) and Jiayin Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and apparatus are provided. A terminal obtains first information and second information, the first information is used to determine a length of a first-type symbol component, the second information is used to determine at least one of a length of a second-type symbol component and a length of a third-type symbol component, and the length of the first-type sy...