ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,101, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Resource determining method and apparatus" was invented by Ruixiang Ma (Shenzhen, China), Lei Guan (Beijing) and Yongxia Lyu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resource determining method and an apparatus are disclosed. A network device determines a resource of an uplink channel. A terminal device receives downlink control information (DCI) sent by the network device, where the DCI is carried on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). The terminal device determines the resource of the uplink channel based on the DCI, where the...