ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,080, issued on July 1, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Downlink power allocation for NBIoT" was invented by Yingying Li (Haidian District, China), Hongmei Liu (Changping District, China), Zhi Yan (Xicheng District, China), Yuantao Zhang (Dongcheng District, China) and Haiming Wang (Xicheng District, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for downlink power allocation for NBIoT are disclosed. A method comprises receiving a first reference signal (NRS), a first data and a second data, wherein the first reference signal is associated with a first transmission power (E_NRS); the first data is in a s...