MUMBAI, India, March 15 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202527010925 A) filed by Zte Corporation, Guangdong, China, on Feb. 10, for 'slot format configuration for smart nodes.'

Inventor(s) include Xu, Hanqing; Zhang, Nan; Li, Ziyang; and Cao, Wei.

The application for the patent was published on March 14, under issue no. 11/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure is directed to slot format configuration for smart nodes, including receiving, by a network node from a wireless communication node, configuration information indicating a type of a number of first symbols in a slot, the type includes at least one of: a downlink symbol, an uplink symbo...