ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,136, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for indicating number of repetitions" was invented by Yawei Yu (Shenzhen, China), Zhiheng Guo (Beijing), Xinqian Xie (Beijing) and Yongqiang Fei (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for indicating a number of repetitions, so that a configuration of a number of repetitions of a sounding reference signal (SRS) and/or a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) is more adaptive to a channel change, includes: A network device sends downlink control information (DCI) to a terminal device, where the DCI includes fi...