ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,481, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and device" was invented by Wenjie Peng (Shanghai), Jun Wang (Shanghai) and Mingzeng Dai (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and devoice, the method including receiving, by a terminal device, indication information sent by a radio access network device, where the indication information is generated by the radio access network device based on configuration information that is used by the terminal device to transmit service data on a sidelink, and where the configuration information include any...