ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,233, issued on May 12, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Small data transmission control" was invented by Benoist Pierre Sebire (Minato-ku, Japan), Tero Henttonen (Espoo, Finland), Jussi-Pekka Koskinen (Oulu, Finland) and Samuli Heikki Turtinen (Ii, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided apparatuses, methods and computer program products. In accordance with an embodiment, there is disclosed a method including determining whether initiating a transmission of a signaling message using a small data transmission procedure is allowed in an inactive state of a user equipment; based on the determinat...