ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,593, issued on July 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Xinyu Gao (Beijing), Xiang Gao (Beijing) and Kunpeng Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example communication methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes receiving a reference signal from a network device by a terminal device. The reference signal has an association relationship with a weight matrix and a channel between the network device and the terminal device, a quantity of rows or columns of the weight matrix is N, and N is a positive integer less than or equal t...