ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,363, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Grant free transmission techniques" was invented by Zhifeng Yuan (Guangdong, China), Yuzhou Hu (Guangdong, China) and Weimin Li (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for a grant-free transmission. A wireless method includes generating and transmitting the same message via one or more transmission channels. The message includes information indicative of one or more channel indexes associated with the one or more transmission channels, one or more pilot signals associated with the one or more transmission channels, one or more spre...