US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 15 for "Base station signaling for user equipment direct transmission while inactive" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,924, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Base station signaling for user equipment direct transmission while inactive" was invented by Fangli Xu (Beijing), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Longda Xing (Cupertino, Calif.), Murtaza A. Shikari (Mountain View, Calif.), Sarma V. Vangala (Cupertino, Calif.), Srinivasan Nimmala (Cupertino, Calif.) and Wei Zeng (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for direct transmission of uplink data by an INACTIVE UE using a contention free random access (CFR...