ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,667, issued on June 10, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Tingting Geng (Shanghai), Chunhua You (Shanghai) and Le Yan (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to the field of communication technologies, and discloses a communication method and apparatus. The terminal device determines, depending on a second information from a network device and whether a terminal device supports uplink service transmission through a second network device, a parameter used to perform cell selection or cell reselection."

The patent was fi...