ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,544, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Fei Wang (Shanghai), Bing Yang (Shanghai), Yingrui Li (Shanghai) and Zhenhua Zhang (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a communication method and apparatus. In the method, the first network device receives a first position from a second network device, where the first position is a position of one or more subframes occupied by first information; determines a first offset and configures a multicast-broadcast single-frequency network (MBSFN) subframe, wh...