ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,184, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and communication apparatus" was invented by Bin Xu (Beijing), Bingzhao Li (Beijing), Zhenzhen Cao (Boulogne Billancourt, France) and Yan Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and a communication apparatus. A central unit determines a first transmission mode of a first service, where the first transmission mode is a point-to-point transmission mode or a point-to-multipoint transmission mode. The central unit indicates a distributed unit to transmit a first data packet of the first service in the...