ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,385, issued on March 3, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Survival time for quality of service requirement relaxation" was invented by Jie Tan (Shenzhen, China), Xiubin Sha (Shenzhen, China), Bo Dai (Shenzhen, China) and Ting Lu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and systems that use the survival time parameter to relax Quality of Service (QoS) reliability requirements in communication services are disclosed. In one example aspect, a wireless communication method includes triggering, by a wireless device, a report to a radio access node due to occurrence of a condition of a survival time a...