ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,329, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Communication method and apparatus, and device" was invented by Meng Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a communication method. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, first information sent by a network device, where the first information is used to indicate an association relationship of physical downlink control channels PDCCH sent by N transmission receiving points, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 2; receiving, by the terminal device, the PDCCHs acc...