ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,540, issued on April 7, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Configuration method and apparatus, and terminal and network side device" was invented by Yumin Wu (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A configuration method includes: receiving, by a terminal, configuration information of a working area sent by a first network side device, where the working area is used for the terminal to perform a first operation; and performing, by the terminal, the first operation in the working area based on the configuration information."

The patent was filed on March 29, 2023, under Application No. 18/1...