ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,238, issued on March 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and device" was invented by Tingting Geng (Shanghai), Hongping Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Qinghai Zeng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application relate to the field of communications technologies and disclose a communication method and a device. The method includes: determining an offset based on a first quantity, wherein the first quantity is a quantity of beams that are used to determine signal quality of a first cell; and determining the signal quality of the first cell based on the offset...