ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,045, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Downlink data transmission method and apparatus, and storage medium and electronic apparatus" was invented by Qiang Pi (Shenzhen, China), Yangfeng Wang (Shenzhen, China), Wei Lu (Shenzhen, China), Jianan Wang (Shenzhen, China), Duanrui Fu (Shenzhen, China) and Xiaoliang Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downlink data transmission method and apparatus, a storage medium, and an electronic device are disclosed. The method may include: determining a transmission delay, where the transmission delay includes a sum of an optical fiber transmission delay...