ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,247, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for handling of small data transmission" was invented by Ran Yue (Beijing), Haiming Wang (Beijing), Jie Shi (Beijing), Jing Han (Beijing) and Jie Hu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for handling of small data transmission are disclosed. A method at a user equipment (UE) that is in a non Radio Resource Control (RRC)_CONNECTED state with a network device comprising: determining whether to perform UL carrier selection for non-first SDT data; and transmitting the non-first SDT data to the network device in respons...