ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,256, issued on May 27, was assigned to Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Data communication method and apparatus" was invented by Wei Bai (Beijing), Xuejuan Gao (Beijing) and Lei Zhou (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a data transmission method and apparatus, which are used for realizing low-delay and high-reliability transmission of data in a new radio (NR) system. The method comprises: determining an actual transmission opportunity in a transmission period according to a notification of a network side, and determining a first transmission opportunity on the basis of the actual transmiss...