ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,011, issued on June 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Xiaoli Shi (Shanghai), Chunhua You (Shanghai) and Jun Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a communication method and apparatus. In an example method, when a first access network device performs unsuccessful listen before talk (LBT) for channel detection on an unlicensed channel, the first access network device sends first indication information to a second access network device. The first indication information indicates that the first access network device pe...