ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,289, issued on March 31, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Systems and methods for indication of valid time" was invented by Fangyu Cui (Shenzhen, China) and Nan Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for techniques for indicating a valid time period for assistance information in mobile communication technology are disclosed. In one example aspect, a wireless communication method includes receiving, by a wireless device, a set of parameters to indicate a validity of assistance information, wherein the assistance information is used to perform a synchronization for transmissions to the n...