ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,218, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Configuration method and device for semi-static transmission" was invented by Wei Gou (Shenzhen, China), Peng Hao (Shenzhen, China), Junfeng Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Shuaihua Kou (Shenzhen, China) and Jing Shi (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication method includes configuring a first wireless device for a communication between the first wireless device and a second wireless device according to a semi-static configuration that specifies a time slot pattern for the communication. M carriers are configured for the communication, where...