ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,676, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Methods, devices, and computer readable medium for communication" was invented by Lin Liang (Beijing) and Gang Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to communication. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a network device transmits configuration information for one or more frequency hopping modes to a terminal device. The terminal device determines which frequency hopping mode is used and also determines a plurality of frequency hopping positions based on the configuration information. In this way, it ...