ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,918, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Hong Li (Beijing), Li Zhang (Beijing), Jing Han (Beijing) and Zhongyi Shen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to the field of communication technologies, and provides a communication method and apparatus, to determine a measurement periodicity in which a communication device performs layer 1 signal to interference plus noise ratio (L1-SINR) beam measurement based on a channel measurement resource (CMR) and an interference measurement resource (IMR). The method incl...