ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,246, issued on March 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Guangdong, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Meng Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Jing Han (Beijing) and Hong Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method includes: receiving a correspondence from a network device, where the correspondence is a correspondence between N measurement gap configurations and N reference signal groups, one or more reference signals included in the reference signal group occupy a same time domain resource, the N reference signal groups are in a one-to-one correspondence with the N measurement ga...