ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,087, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Hailong Hou (Beijing), Zhe Jin (Beijing), Zhihu Luo (Beijing), Weilin Qu (Beijing) and Zheng Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a communication method and apparatus, to improve communication performance of a terminal device. The method includes: determining to perform transmission in a frequency hopping transmission manner; and when transmission is performed in a repeated transmission manner, sending a third message (Msg3) or a message A (MsgA) in a random acc...