ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,299, issued on April 14, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Signal transmitting method and apparatus, signal receiving method and apparatus, device and storage medium" was invented by Xuan Ma (Shenzhen, China), Mengzhu Chen (Shenzhen, China), Jun Xu (Shenzhen, China) and Focai Peng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a signal sending method and apparatus, a signal receiving method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The signal receiving method includes: receiving a paging early indication (PEI) signal before a paging occasion (PO), where the PEI signal is used for indicating to a user e...