ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,583, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Fan Wang (Shanghai) and Mengying Ding (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method includes receiving first data from a network device or a terminal device, and demapping the first data based on a first frequency hopping pattern. The first frequency hopping pattern is one of K candidate frequency hopping patterns. One candidate frequency hopping pattern in the K candidate frequency hopping patterns includes L frequency hopping portions. At least two candidate frequency hoppin...