ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,644, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Yunfei Qiao (Hangzhou, China), Ying Chen (Hangzhou, China) and Xiaolu Wang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide communication methods and apparatuses. One method includes: receiving first indication information from a network device, where the first indication information indicates a first part of a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) process identifier scheduled by the network device, obtaining a second part of the HARQ process identifier, and...