ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,260, issued on May 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Jiehua Xiao (Shenzhen, China), Xinxian Li (Shanghai), Jinlin Peng (Shanghai) and Yi Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to the field of communication technologies, and provides a communication method and apparatus. The method includes: A terminal device receives first downlink control information DCI from a network device through a first physical downlink control channel PDCCH. The first DCI includes a first time domain resource assignment TDRA indicator field, ...