ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,418, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Resource attribute configuration" was invented by Majid Ghanbarinejad (Chicago), Hyejung Jung (Northbrook, Ill.) and Vijay Nangia (Woodridge, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for resource attribute configuration. One method includes receiving a first configuration for a resource. The first configuration includes a first parameter indicating a time-domain attribute associated with the resource, and the time-domain attribute is hard, soft, and/or unavailable. The method includes receiving a second config...