ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,476, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Resource scheduling method, apparatus, and device" was invented by Ming Gan (Shenzhen, China), Meilu Lin (Shenzhen, China) and Le Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide a resource scheduling method, which can support reduction of transmission resource overheads in resource scheduling. The method is applied to a wireless local area network, where a next generation protocol followed by the wireless local area network predefines locations of resource units possibly allocated from a to-be-assigned frequency domain res...