ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,391, issued on March 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Xiangyu Li (Shanghai), Xiao Xiao (Shenzhen, China), Chang Yu (Shenzhen, China), Jun Wang (Shanghai), Wenjie Peng (Shanghai), Mingzeng Dai (Shenzhen, China) and Dongdong Wei (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal device obtains first configuration information, where the first configuration information includes indication information of a UL MAC CE. Then, the terminal device preferentially sends a UL MAC PDU or an SL MAC PDU based on the indication information, where the UL MAC PDU...