ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,509, issued on March 3, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for data transmission and reception" was invented by Jongku Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Kijun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Dongsun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Byounggill Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hyunmin Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Taehowan Hong (Seoul, South Korea) and Seju Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method and an apparatus for transmitting data in a wireless communication system. Logical channels or data streams are divided into two groups according to QoS characteristics and sorted in ascending...