ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,697, issued on March 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Nannan Liu (Beijing), Junren Chang (Beijing), Jun Wang (Shanghai), Dongdong Wei (Shanghai) and Chang Yu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and apparatus are applied to fields such as V2X, vehicle to everything, an intelligent connected vehicle, assisted driving, and intelligent driving. The method includes: a first terminal device determines a first new data indicator NDI based on an identifier of a first destination address and an identifier of a first hybr...