ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,713, issued on July 14, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Segmented transmission in NTN IoT" was invented by Zhi Yan (Beijing), Hongmei Liu (Beijing), Yuantao Zhang (Beijing) and Haiming Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for segmented transmission in NTN IoT are disclosed. A method comprises transmitting uplink data on a physical resource, wherein, at least a gap with a first length duration is inserted in the physical resource so that the uplink data is postponed to be transmitted after the gap, or at least a data segment of the uplink data with a second length duration is punctured...