ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,661, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Event processing method and device" was invented by Yanping Wang (Shanghai), Zhiwen Liu (Shanghai), Ling Zhou (Shanghai) and Wei Lu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An event processing method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure determines M events, where each event is associated with a priority and a minimum working time, M is an integer greater than 1, and the minimum working time of each event is less than duration of a time slice; processes a first event within a first time slice, where the first event is an e...