ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,957, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Operation mode indication method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Weilin Qu (Beijing), Juan Zheng (Beijing), Chaojun Li (Beijing) and Zhe Jin (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-antenna operation mode indication method and an apparatus resolve a problem that increased power consumption and a resource waste are caused because a terminal device still operates in a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) mode by default in a single-port transmission mode. The method includes: a network device sends indication informat...