ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,859, issued on May 19, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Timing advance validation for small data transmission" was invented by Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas (Aalborg, Denmark), Daniela Laselva (Aalborg, Denmark), Karri Markus Ranta-Aho (Espoo, Finland), Sofonias Hailu (Oulu, Finland) and Chunli Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to Timing Advance validation for Small Data Transmissions. A first device includes at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program codes; wherein the at least one memory and the computer program codes...