ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,076, issued on March 4, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Guangdong, China).

"Efficient signaling in non-terrestrial and terrestrial network deployment" was invented by Li Niu (Guangdong, China), Bo Dai (Guangdong, China), Xiubin Sha (Guangdong, China) and Ting Lu (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and systems for reducing signaling overhead and power consumption while ensuring mobility of communication devices in non-terrestrial network deployment as well as terrestrial network deployment are disclosed. In one example aspect, a wireless communication method includes receiving, by a communication device fro...