ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,789, issued on April 29, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Wenjie Peng (Shanghai), Xudong Yang (Shanghai) and Xingxing Hu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a communication method and apparatus, and relate to the communication field, so that an inter-node negotiation process between an MN and an SN can be completed when the MN uses a CU-DU architecture in DC communication. The method includes: A DU receives a first request message from a CU, where the first request message requests the DU to determine configuration infor...