ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,163, issued on June 30, was assigned to Industrial Technology Research Institute (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method of logical channel prioritization and device thereof" was invented by Tzu-Jane Tsai (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Chun-Yuan Chiu (Pingtung County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of logical channel prioritization and a device thereof are provided. The method includes: obtaining a radio resource control configuration message from a base station, wherein the radio resource control configuration message includes a plurality of logical channels with priority values respectively; sending a buffer status report (BSR) as...