ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,288, issued on May 13, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Yedan Wu (Shanghai), Tingting Geng (Shanghai) and Lili Zheng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example communication methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes receiving first information from a first device, where the first information indicates N moments and location information of the first device at the N moments. The first device obtains second information, where the second information indicates a correspondence between the N moments and M area identifiers, or th...