ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,359, issued on July 8, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Systems and methods to trigger sending uplink messages" was invented by Huahua Xiao (Shenzhen, China), Guozeng Zheng (Shenzhen, China), Zhaohua Lu (Shenzhen, China) and Chuangxin Jiang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication method includes receiving, by a wireless communication device from a wireless communication node, a downlink control message; and sending, by the wireless communication device to the wireless communication node, in response to receiving the downlink control message, an uplink signal, wherein the uplink signal is c...