ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,242, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and communication apparatus" was invented by Lei Gao (Beijing), Jiezuo Zhu (Beijing) and Jian Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method includes receiving, by a first time domain resource, a first signal for synchronization and receiving, by at least one second time domain resource, a first message comprising one or both of cyclic prefix length information and resource configuration information for uplink transmission and downlink transmission, wherein a length of a time interval between the first tim...