ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,798, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and apparatus are provided. One example method includes: receiving a first message from a network device, wherein the first message comprises first indication information, and the first indication information indicates to allow a request to adjust a capability mode of a terminal device to one capability mode in M capability modes...