ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,489, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Frame preemption method and apparatus, device and storage medium" was invented by Xiangyang Zhu (Shenzhen, China) and Jinghai Yu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A frame preemption method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: determining that an express Media Access Control (eMAC) packet needs to be sent; and sending the eMAC packet when timing reaches a preemption delay target value."

The patent was filed on Feb. 9, 2022, under Application No. 18/273,821.

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