ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,031, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Resource determining method and apparatus for uplink transmission" was invented by Jian Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Lixia Xue (Beijing) and Yifan Xue (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: when a band, in which a supplemental uplink (SUL) carrier is located, multiplexes a time-division duplex (TDD) band or a low-frequency frequency-division duplex (FDD) band, M time domain resources used by a terminal device to perform SUL transmission is determined from N time domain resources included in the SUL carrier, and indication...