ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,084, issued on July 21, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Network method for small data transmission termination and signaling" was invented by Philippe Godin (Massy, France), Daniela Laselva (Aalborg, Denmark) and Subramanya Chandrashekar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques of performing multi-shot SDT transactions include determining, by a distributed unit (DU) of a base station gNB) in a wireless network, a condition for terminating of a multi-shot small data transmission (SDT) and provide an indication of the termination to an entity within the wireless network."

The patent was file...