ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,976, issued on May 20, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Multi-cell transmission scheduling" was invented by Shuaihua Kou (Guangdong, China), Wei Gou (Guangdong, China), Peng Hao (Guangdong, China), Xing Liu (Guangdong, China) and Junfeng Zhang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and systems that enable scheduling of related data transmissions across multiple cells and/or carriers are disclosed. In one example aspect, a method for wireless communication includes processing, by a base station, a first data transmission for a user device on a first serving cell and transmitting, by the base ...