ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,220, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Slot aggregation method and device, slot aggregation transmission method and device, storage medium, and electronic device" was invented by Yijian Chen (Shenzhen, China), Zhaohua Lu (Shenzhen, China) and Fusheng Zhu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a slot aggregation and device, a slot aggregation transmission method and device, a storage medium, and an electronic device. The slot aggregation method includes: setting, in a slot aggregation process, N slots as X slot groups, wherein a transmission format of each slot group is pre-configur...