US Patent Issued to ZTE on July 21 for "Configuration of validity timer" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,998, issued on July 21, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Configuration of validity timer" was invented by Chenchen Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Fangyu Cui (Shenzhen, China), Nan Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Wei Cao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and apparatus for achieving a synchronization between a wireless device and a network device are described. One example method includes transmitting, by the wireless device to the network device, a first message indicating a property of a validity timer associated with a synchronization information determined by the wireless device."

The patent was f...