ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,499, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for determining transport block size" was invented by Qiujin Guo (Shenzhen, China), Yu Ngok Li (Shenzhen, China), Jun Xu (Shenzhen, China), Jin Xu (Shenzhen, China) and Mengzhu Chen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, systems and devices for determining a transport block size (TBS) are disclosed. The method comprises determining the TBS based on a parameter or a signaling associated with an event of determining an intermediate value of a TBS determination procedure, wherein the parameter or a signaling is available for a wireless terminal...