ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,484, issued on June 30, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Systems and methods for resource indication" was invented by Wei Cao (Shenzhen, China), Nan Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Shuang Zheng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented are systems and methods for resource indication. A network node may receive at least one of (i) beam information and (ii) time domain information from a wireless communication node. The time domain information can be to indicate a time interval in which the beam information can be to be applied by the network node."

The patent was filed on Aug. 29, 2024, under Application No. ...