ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,933, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communications method and apparatus" was invented by Chuting Yao (Beijing), Yiru Kuang (Beijing), Jian Wang (Beijing) and Bo Xu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communications method and apparatus are provided. A network device determines whether a first capability of a terminal device is less than or equal to a second capability of the terminal device. The first capability is a capability of the terminal device of working at a first frequency when the terminal device supports only a first radio access technology, and the second ...