ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,413, issued on March 25, was assigned to SPREADTRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Data receiving method and apparatus, storage medium and terminal" was invented by Huayu Zhou (Shanghai), Xingya Shen (Shanghai) and Zhengang Pan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for receiving data, a storage medium and a terminal are provided. The method includes: detecting a downlink signal in a Fixed Frame Period (FFP); and determining that an uplink transmission or a downlink reception can be performed in the FFP in response to the downlink signal being detected in the FFP."

The patent was filed on S...