ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,321, issued on May 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Resource configuration method and device" was invented by Weiwei Fan (Shanghai), Jiayin Zhang (Shanghai) and David Jean-Marie Mazzarese (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide an unlicensed frequency band-based resource configuration method and an apparatus, to resolve a problem of configuring a fixed frame period FFP for a terminal device operating in an unlicensed frequency band in a current technology. The method includes: A network device sends fixed frame period FFP configuration information to a termi...