ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,412, issued on July 14, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for processing frame synchronization data" was invented by Xinyu Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to a method and apparatus for processing frame synchronization data. The method includes: predicting a downlink network congestion trend based on a congestion condition of received downlink data frames; adjusting a report time interval of uplink data frames based on the downlink network congestion trend, the downlink network congestion trend being in direct proportion to the...