ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,681, issued on March 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Xingqing Cheng (Beijing), Lili Jin (Chengdu, China) and Jian Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a communication method and apparatus applied to the field of communication technologies. The method includes: processing a first transport block (TB) in a target check code addition manner in a plurality of check code addition manners, to obtain first data, where the first data includes M code blocks (CBs), and M is a positive integer; generating at least one codeword based o...