ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,292, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Information sending and receiving method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Juan Zheng (Beijing), Chaojun Li (Beijing), Hailong Hou (Beijing) and Yongqiang Fei (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and apparatus to reduce a waiting latency in a retransmission process. A terminal device receives a first PDSCH from a network device. In response to failing to decode data carried on the first PDSCH, the terminal device sends an SRS to the network device on a first time-frequency resource. In response to the networ...