ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,416, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Duty-cycle based configured scheduling" was invented by Ping-Heng Kuo (London), Petteri Kela (Kaarina, Finland), Guillermo Pocovi (Aalborg, Denmark), Zexian Li (Espoo, Finland) and Dawid Koziol (Wroclaw, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus may include determining, by a network entity, at least one interval of at least one scheduling resource during which the at least one scheduling resource is in at least one of a first status or a second status. The method may further include transmitting, by the network entity, information associ...