ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,271, issued on July 28, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Scheduling request resource configuration" was invented by Xiaoying Ma (Shenzhen, China), Yuzhou Hu (Shenzhen, China), Jun Xu (Shenzhen, China), Mengzhu Chen (Shenzhen, China), Jiajun Xu (Shenzhen, China) and Hong Tang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In wireless communication, an improved change of a schedule request ("SR") resource configuration is provided. The SR resource configuration may be transmitted from a basestation to user equipment ("UE") and may include a parameter for the configuring of one or more SRs. A validity of the SR resource co...