US Patent Issued to Lenovo (Beijing) on March 11 for "Apparatus and method for communication with buffer status report" (Chinese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,586, issued on March 11, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Apparatus and method for communication with buffer status report" was invented by Lianhai Wu (Beijing), Joachim Loehr (Wiesbaden, Germany), Prateek Basu Mallick (Dreieich, Germany), Haiming Wang (Beijing) and Jing Han (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for communication in an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) system with buffer status report (BSR) are disclosed. The apparatus include a receiver that receives a BSR indicating that data is expected to be received; a processor that calculates a first type of buffer size based on the ...