Any reports of the death of the Moto brand have been greatly exaggerated, Motorola CEO Rick Osterloh and Senior VP of Marketing and Communications Adrienne Hayes reiterated at a group briefing Monday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Some confusing reports had emerged in recent weeks after Lenovo announced that "Motorola" would now be known as just "Moto" — which of course it'd been using in branding and products for years anyway.

"Motorola continues to exist — will continue to exist," Hayes said. "The product brand that we choose to use — and have been using — is Moto. So Moto continues to exist as the design and engineering unit."

Osterloh reiterated that we'll continue to see Moto's trademark bat-wing symbol on products, but we'll also see Lenovo's name involved as well.

So in 2016 we could well see something like the "Lenovo Moto X" or "Lenovo Moto G."

"We're working in a much more integrated fashion with our Lenovo colleagues," Hayes said.

Verizon's phones will continue to be branded as "Droid," Hayes said. But they're "very actively discussing" exactly how that name might evolve. "We're trying to embrace the parent company. ... There's a lot of opportunity there, so we're looking to leverage that."