ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,083, issued on May 20, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data transmission method and apparatus" was invented by Wei Gou (Guangdong, China), Feng Bi (Guangdong, China) and Peng Hao (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: transmitting, by a transmitting node, configuration information of a pre-scheduling period, where the configuration information of the pre-scheduling period is used for instructing a receiving node to prepare data to be transmitted according to the configuration information of the pre-sche...