ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,458, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to YINWANG INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communications method and apparatus" was invented by Chao Li (Chengdu, China), Xingxin Zhang (Chengdu, China), Pengxin Bao (Chengdu, China) and Xuehuan Wang (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a communications method, a control node determines first configuration information where the first configuration information belongs to a configuration information set. The configuration information set includes at least one piece of configuration information to indicate whether a first slave node performs, in some or all of time ...