ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,652, issued on April 22, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for scheduling request and buffer status report transmissions" was invented by Lianhai Wu (Beijing), Haiming Wang (Beijing), Jing Han (Beijing), Zhi Yan (Beijing), Jie Shi (Beijing) and Jie Hu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method includes: receiving a first buffer status report at a communication device; and triggering a pre-emptive buffer status report based on the first buffer status report if a trigger condition is met....