ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,836, issued on May 20, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method, device and computer program product for wireless communication" was invented by Ziyang Li (Shenzhen, China), Li Tian (Shenzhen, China), Ling Yang (Shenzhen, China) and Li Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, device and computer program product for wireless communication are provided. A method includes: switching, by a wireless communication node, from a first uplink Listen Before Talk (LBT) scheme to a second uplink LBT scheme in response to a congestion level of an uplink channel between the wireless communication node and a network...