ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,046, issued on July 22, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Wireless communication method and apparatus" was invented by Yunfei Qiao (Hangzhou, China), Yu Wang (Hangzhou, China) and Rong Li (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide a wireless communication method and apparatus. In one example method, a first communication apparatus obtains first beam configuration information, determines a first beam hopping pattern based on the first beam configuration information, and communicates with a second communication apparatus based on the first beam hopping pattern....