ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,416, issued on March 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Guangdong, China).

"Communication method, device, and apparatus" was invented by Hao Sun (Xi'an, China) and Lixia Xue (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method, a device, and an apparatus are provided. A network device determines N configuration parameter sets configured for a terminal device Each of the N configuration parameter sets includes a parameter for detecting a candidate downlink control channel, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 2. The network device sends information about the N configuration parameter sets to the term...