ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,543, issued on July 14, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for determining slot formats of uplink and downlink transmission" was invented by Yuantao Zhang (Beijing), Hongmei Liu (Beijing), Zhi Yan (Beijing), Yingying Li (Beijing) and Haiming Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a method and an apparatus for determining slot formats of UL/DL transmission. The method includes: receiving a first UL/DL configuration and a second UL/DL configuration: and determining slot formats for a set of non-flexible slots and non-flexible symbols by at least one of the fir...