ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,547, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Mechanism for configured grant transmission" was invented by Daniela Laselva (Klarup, Denmark), Samuli Heikki Turtinen (Ii, Finland), Jussi-Pekka Koskinen (Oulu, Finland) and Chunli Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanism on configured grant transmissions is provided. If a small data transmission is needed, a first device determines whether a timing advance is valid in a subsequent CG occasion for the small data transmission. The first device also determines whether an evaluation of a validity condition is applicable in the subsequent CG occ...