ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,901, issued on April 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and communications apparatus" was invented by Liuliu Ji (Shanghai), Fei Gao (Shanghai), Haicun Hang (Shanghai) and Xiaoyan Bi (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides communications methods and apparatuses. In an implementation, a terminal device performs operations comprising: receiving first configuration information from a network device, wherein the first configuration information indicates a configured quantity of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidate locations in a time unit correspo...