ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,522, issued on June 30, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for handling time-sensitive transmission" was invented by Ran Yue (Haidian District, China), Jing Han (Chaoyang District, China), Haiming Wang (Xicheng District, China) and Jianning Liu (Haidian District, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present application are directed to a method and apparatus for handling time-sensitive transmission. The method may include: determining there is an overlap between a first time period for performing a measurement and a second time period for data transmission or data reception; and d...