ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,311, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"System and method for transmission indications" was invented by Jianqiang Dai (Shenzhen, China), Wei Cao (Shenzhen, China), Jianwu Dou (Shenzhen, China) and Nan Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for transmission indications are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the system and method are configured to transmit, by a wireless communication node to a wireless communication device, within an uplink gap or a downlink gap, control information."

The patent was filed on Dec. 29, 2022, under Application No. 18/090,844.

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