ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,236, issued on May 27, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for indicating TDD uplink-downlink configuration" was invented by Haipeng Lei (Beijing), Zhi Yan (Beijing), Xiaodong Yu (Beijing) and Haiming Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a method and apparatus for indicating a TDD uplink-downlink configuration. One embodiment of the subject application provides a method performed by a user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising: receiving, from a base station (BS), a signal indicating an uplink-downlink transmission pattern, wherein the uplin...