ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,385, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Subframe type notification and determination methods and device" was invented by Xuejuan Gao (Beijing) and Xueming Pan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a subframe type notification and determination methods and device. The invention enables a terminal to dynamically determine a subframe type, such that a subframe type can be flexibly changed to adapt to different service transmission requirements, thereby increasing system transmission efficiency. The subframe type determination method of the invention comprises: det...