ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,111, issued on May 5, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Methods for determining effective time, and communication device" was invented by Yajun Zhu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining an effective time includes: UE determining a time with a preset time interval from a downlink slot at which the UE receives a MAC CE signaling as an effective time of a configuration carried in the MAC CE signaling, wherein the preset time interval comprises at least a compensation duration for the UE to switch to the configuration carried in the MAC CE signaling."

The patent was filed on Sep...