ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,769, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Delay determination method and apparatus" was invented by Wei Hong (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delay determination method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium that improves a resource utilization rate in a wireless network. The resource utilization rate is improved by: in response to receiving a busy indication sent by a terminal, delaying a determination process associated with a reachable state of the terminal."

The patent was filed on Nov. 3, 2020, under Application No. 18/035,063.

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