ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,094, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Signaling unavailability of uplink and downlink resources" was invented by Ankit Bhamri (Rodermark, Germany), Hossein Bagheri (Urbana, Ill.), Hyejung Jung (Northbrook, Ill.), Karthikeyan Ganesan (Kronberg im Taunus, Germany), Alexander Johann Maria Golitschek Edler von Elbwart (Darmstadt, Germany) and Ali Ramadan Ali (Kraiburg am Inn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for unified signaling for Downlink Preemption Indication ("DL PI") and Uplink Cancellation Indication ("UL CI"). One apparatus in a mo...