ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,042, issued on May 6, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Chunhua You (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides communication methods and apparatuses. One example method includes that a terminal device sends a random access request to a network device, and the terminal device receives a random access response to the random access request that comprises first configuration information from a network device. The first indication information indicates not to perform channel access or the first indication information indicates that a c...