ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,370, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Channel transmission method, channel receiving method, communication node, and storage medium" was invented by Kun Liu (Guangdong, China), Bo Dai (Guangdong, China) and Huiying Fang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a channel transmission and reception method, a communication node, and a storage medium. The channel transmission method includes determining a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) frequency hopping pattern, where the PUCCH frequency hopping pattern is one of preset frequency hopping patterns, and the preset frequency hopp...