ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,651, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Semi-persistent scheduling enhancement" was invented by Yonggang Wang (Shanghai), Hua Chao (Shanghai), Zexian Li (Espoo, Finland) and Ping-Heng Kuo (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various example embodiments relate to methods and apparatus supporting semi-persistent scheduling enhancement. A terminal device in a communication network may comprise at least one processor and at least one memory having computer program code stored thereon. The at least one memory and the computer program code may be configured to, with the at least ...