ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,940, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and device" was invented by Tingyu Xin (Shenzhen, China), Bingzhao Li (Beijing) and Lei Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide a communication method and a device. The communication method and the device may be used in the field of a communication technology that supports a reduced capability terminal device, for example, weak-capability UE or MTC UE. The method includes: A first network device determines that a type of a first terminal device is a first type. The first network...