ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,851, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Resource release method and apparatus, network node and storage medium" was invented by Tingting Zhong (Dongguan, China) and Zhenhua Xie (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resource release method includes when a first network node determines that a first condition is met, performing at least one of the following: releasing a first resource; or sending first data to a second network node; where the first data is used for at least one of the following: requesting a second network node to release the first resource; indicating ...