ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,308, issued on July 28, was assigned to LENOVO (BEIJING) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Support of UL SDT during MT SDT" was invented by Ran Yue (Beijing), Lianhai Wu (Beijing), Jie Hu (Beijing), Jie Shi (Beijing) and Jing Han (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for support of UL SDT during MT SDT are disclosed. A method performed by a terminal device in a non Radio Resource Control (RRC)_CONNECTED state with a network device comprises receiving a paging for Mobile Terminating (MT) Small Data Transmission (SDT) from the network device; and determining whether to stop the MT SDT or not when uplink (UL) data expected to b...