ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,453, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"System message transmission method and device" was invented by Bo Dai (Shenzhen, China), Shuqiang Xia (Shenzhen, China), Guanghui Yu (Shenzhen, China), Liujun Hu (Shenzhen, China) and Yifei Yuan (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a system message transmission method and device, which relate to the field of wireless communications. According to the system message transmission method, a system message is transmitted at a preset resource location; and a physical downlink channel is transmitted according to the system message. The system messa...