ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,161, issued on June 17, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Guangdong, China).

"Message forwarding method, message forwarding device and computer-readable medium" was invented by Xiangyang Zhu (Guangdong, China), Yufang Han (Guangdong, China) and Jinghai Yu (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a message forwarding method, including: receiving a target message from an upstream device, the target message carrying first timeslot information including a first timeslot length and a first timeslot identifier; determining a second timeslot length and a second timeslot identifier according to the first time...