ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,871, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Data transmission method and terminal device" was invented by Xue Lin (Dongguan, China), Cong Shi (Dongguan, China) and Haitao Li (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present application provide a data transmission method and a terminal device, which can realize continuous inactive-state small data transmission. The data transmission method includes: sending, by a terminal device, first information during running of a first timer, where the terminal device is in an inactive state, the first t...