ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,316, issued on March 18, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Preconfiguring dedicated resource information in idle mode" was invented by Xiubin Sha (Guangdong, China), Bo Dai (Guangdong, China), Ting Lu (Guangdong, China), Xu Liu (Guangdong, China) and Kun Liu (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices related to related to digital wireless communication, and more specifically, to techniques related to pre-configure dedicated resources for data transmission. In one exemplary aspect, a method for wireless communication includes receiving a pre-configured transmission resource request from...