ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,057, issued on July 22, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Zhihu Luo (Beijing), Xiang Mi (Beijing), Lei Chen (Beijing) and Zhe Jin (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to a communication method and apparatus. A terminal device sends first uplink data to a network device. After sending the first uplink data, the terminal device monitors a first downlink control channel in a first search space in a first duration; and after the first duration ends, the terminal device monitors a second downlink control channel in a second sear...