ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,017, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Hongzhe Shi (Shenzhen, China), Min Cheng (Hong Kong), Wenkai Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Jing Liang (Shanghai), Zhitang Chen (Hong Kong), Yiqun Wu (Shanghai) and Huangping Jin (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and apparatus. A terminal device determines channel state information based on S indexes of S vectors. Each of the S vectors is included in a first vector quantization dictionary. The first vector quantization dictionary includes N1 vectors, where N1 and S are b...