ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,425, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Method for determining cell scheduling mode, terminal, and network-side device" was invented by Gen Li (Dongguan, China), Xueming Pan (Dongguan, China), Siqi Liu (Dongguan, China) and Xiaodong Yang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a cell scheduling mode includes: receiving scheduling configuration information, where the scheduling configuration information indicates that a second cell of the terminal is scheduled by a first cell of the terminal and that the second cell is capable of self-scheduling; d...