ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,343, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Chong Lou (Shanghai), Qiang Fan (Shanghai) and Qufang Huang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and an apparatus includes a network device sends first information to a terminal device, so that the terminal device can determine a HARQ feedback manner based on the first information, where the HARQ feedback manner includes skipping ACK feedback and/or NACK feedback. In this manner, the network device controls the HARQ feedback manner used by the terminal device,...