ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,408, issued on July 14, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods for logical channel prioritization and traffic shaping in wireless systems" was invented by Faris Alfarhan (Montreal), Paul Marinier (Brossard, Canada) and Ghyslain Pelletier (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a WTRU may comprise associating a logical channel with a plurality of token buckets, including at least a long term token bucket and a short term token bucket. The method may further comprise transmitting logical channel data on the associated logical channel, in a TTI. The transmitted logical chann...