ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,391, issued on July 8, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Resource configuration" was invented by Zhi Yan (Beijing), Lianhai Wu (Beijing), Haipeng Lei (Beijing), Hongmei Liu (Beijing), Jie Shi (Beijing) and Haiming Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for resource configuration are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method at a remote unit comprises: receiving a preconfigured uplink resource (PUR) configuration; and transmitting uplink data in a frequency-time resource starting from a starting time, wherein the starting time is determined based on at least one of: (1) a connection release si...