ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,983, issued on July 29, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Yinghao Jin (Boulogne Billancourt, France), Jinping Hao (Shanghai) and Wei Tan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and a related device are disclosed. An evolved NodeB eNB receives a first message sent by a terminal device, where the first message is for requesting to access the eNB. The eNB sends a second message to the terminal device, where the second message includes a system message corresponding to at least one serving cell of a gNB, and the second message indi...