ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,518, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Lili Zhang (Beijing), Xizeng Dai (Beijing), Jianghua Liu (Beijing), Liangliang Zhang (Beijing) and Shulan Feng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: receiving configuration information from a network device, where the configuration information indicates an occasion and/or a period for sending a measurement signal on a second uplink carrier; obtaining signal quality or signal strength on a downlink carrier associated with ...