ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,215, issued on July 28, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Method and apparatus for determining transmission delay, device, and storage medium" was invented by Wen Wang (Dongguan, China), Xiaowan Ke (Dongguan, China) and Xiaodong Yang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for determining a transmission delay, a device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: obtaining first information; and determining a first delay based on the first information. The first information includes an internal processing delay of a server or a server processing resour...