ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,963, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods and systems for coverage enhancement in wireless networks" was invented by Yiwei Deng (Shenzhen, China), Xianghui Han (Shenzhen, China), Peng Hao (Shenzhen, China) and Jian Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, systems, and computer readable media are disclosed. In one aspect, a wireless communication method is disclosed. The method includes configuring, by a network node, a multi-slot transmission by determining a number of repetition transmissions based on available slots according to a rule for performing repetition trans...