ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,124, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Multi-slot scheduling on unlicensed spectrum" was invented by Haipeng Lei (Beijing) and Alexander Johann Maria Golitschek Edler von Elbwart (Darmstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for multi-slot scheduling on unlicensed spectrum are disclosed. A method comprises: receiving a downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling time-contiguous data transmission in multiple slots, wherein the DCI includes an indicator indicating the time domain resource allocation in the multiple slots; determining, based on the indicator, a starti...