ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,130, issued on July 28, was assigned to BLACKPIN Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for terminal to perform buffer status reporting and power headroom reporting in mobile wireless communication system" was invented by Soenghun Kim (Hanam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for data transfer in RRC_INACTIVE state is provided. Method for data transfer in RRC_INACTIVE state includes receiving RRC Reconfiguration message, receiving RRC Release message and triggering BSR based on the first BSR configuration and first LCGs or based on the second BSR configuration and second LCGs."

The patent...