ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,065, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Xiaoying Xu (Shenzhen, China), Qiang Fan (Shanghai) and Feng Han (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: receiving a first time difference from a second communication apparatus; determining a round trip time RTT based on the first time difference and a second time difference; and sending a second message to a terminal device, where the second message includes the RTT, an air interface propagation delay, or terminal device ...