ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,522, issued on March 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Yongqiang Fei (Shenzhen, China), Juan Zheng (Beijing), Hailong Hou (Beijing) and Chaojun Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal device receives first information from a network device, where the first information indicates transmission direction information and/or service load information. The terminal device receives downlink control information DCI from the network device based on the first information. The network device may configure a DCI transmission mo...