ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,238, issued on May 12, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Small data transmission procedure termination" 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: "Devices, methods and computer programs for small data transmission, SDT, transaction termination are disclosed. A client device determines whether an ongoing small data transmission, SDT, transaction comprising one or more uplink, UL, small data transmissions with a control plane network node device is to be terminated. If yes, a radio resource control...