ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,961, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Tong Sha (Beijing), Junren Chang (Beijing), Jianlin Wang (Beijing), Jianghua Liu (Beijing) and Bingzhao Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a communication method and apparatus. The method includes: A terminal device receives configuration information from a network device, where the configuration information is used to configure a first carrier or a first carrier group. The terminal device may send first information to the network device, where the first informa...