ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,054, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Mobility for small data transmission procedure" was invented by Chunli Wu (Beijing), Samuli Turtinen (Oulu, Finland) and Jussi-Pekka Koskinen (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to mobility for small data transmission (SDT) procedure. The first device, which is in an inactive state and served in a first cell of the second device, performs a session of small data transmission between the first device and the second device. The first device determines whether a potential cell reselection criterion is s...