ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,389, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Frequency hopping method and apparatus, and user equipment, base station and storage medium" was invented by Xuemei Qiao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A frequency hopping method is performed by a user equipment (UE), and includes: obtaining an instruction configured by a base station for instructing to perform intra-slot frequency hopping; obtaining symbol resources allocated by the base station for data transmission in a special slot; performing intra-slot frequency hopping on an uplink slot and determining available symbols in the ...