ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,729, issued on June 10, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Buffer status reporting method, relay terminal device, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Jiamin Liu (Guangdong, China) and Xiaodong Yang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A buffer status reporting method, a relay terminal device, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The buffer status reporting method includes: determining data information of to-be-transmitted data, where the to-be-transmitted data is data which is about to be sent by a remote terminal device to a network device through a r...