ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,637, issued on April 29, was assigned to China Mobile Communication Co. Ltd Research Institute (Beijing) and China Mobile Communications Group Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Buffer control method and user equipment" was invented by Ningyu Chen (Beijing) and Nan Hu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A buffer control method, a UE, and a non-volatile computer-readable storage medium are provided. The buffer control method for the UE includes: transmitting, by the UE, first check information to a network side device; receiving, by the UE, first buffer resetting information from the network side device; releasing or emptying a current compressi...