ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,332, issued on March 31, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for instructing to transmit data, communication device, and storage medium" was invented by Yajun Zhu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for instructing data transmission on an unlicensed spectrum channel, which is applied to a first communication node, includes: performing channel detection on an unlicensed channel; and in response to detecting that the unlicensed channel is idle, broadcasting first slot format indicator (SFI) information, where the first SFI information is at least used for indicating the...