ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,988, issued on June 16, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Configurations for resource-saving data transmissions in shared spectrum channel access" was invented by Wei Zou (Shenzhen, China) and Li Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented are systems, methods, apparatuses, or computer-readable media for configuration of resource-saving data transmissions in shared spectrum channel access. A first device may receive, from a second device, configuration information for resource-saving transmission. The first device may determine whether to use the resource-saving transmission in an unlicensed spectrum, ...