ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,912, issued on July 14, was assigned to ZHEJIANG LAB (Hangzhou, China).

"Multi-user flexible ethernet fine granularity time slot allocation method and apparatus" was invented by Kainan Zhu (Hangzhou, China), Yongdong Zhu (Hangzhou, China), Zhifeng Zhao (Hangzhou, China), Yuntao Liu (Hangzhou, China), Shuyuan Zhao (Hangzhou, China), Chuyu Li (Hangzhou, China) and Bin Yang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-user flexible Ethernet fine granularity time slot allocation method and apparatus. The method is specifically: providing two time slot resource allocation and deployment schemes according to user demands, where ...