ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,240, issued on March 4, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Method for transmitting a transmission indication signal, network device, and terminal" was invented by Kai Wu (Dongguan, China), Xueming Pan (Dongguan, China) and Peng Sun (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for transmitting a transmission indication signal includes: receiving a transmission indication signal on a part of time-frequency resources occupied by a network device. The transmission indication signal is used to instruct a terminal to perform a corresponding terminal behavior according to terminal behavior ind...