ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,645, issued on July 14, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Methods, devices, and medium for communication" was invented by Da Wang (Beijing) and Gang Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to UP transmission for a device in an inactive mode. A first network device transmits data received from a terminal device in an inactive mode via a connection established for the terminal device between the first network device and the second network device to a second network device, and transmits, to the second network device, a first indication indicating a termination of a data transm...