ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,893, issued on May 26, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for downlink and uplink transmissions over an unlicensed spectrum" was invented by Haipeng Lei (Beijing) and Yu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for downlink and uplink transmission over an unlicensed spectrum. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method for wireless communications may include: determining a transport block (TB) to be transmitted on a plurality of consecutive slots; determining a set of candidate starting positions for transmitt...