ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,296, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Qiang Li (Beijing), Yifan Xue (Beijing) and Lixia Xue (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method includes: obtaining configuration information, where the configuration information indicates a resource set, the resource set includes a first resource set and/or a second resource set, a resource in the first resource set may be used by a terminal of a first capability type to send a preamble, a resource in the second resource set may be used by a terminal of a second capability ...