ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,421, issued on April 21, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Small data transmission" was invented by Taehun Kim (Fairfax, Va.), Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.), Jinsook Ryu (Oakton, Va.) and Peyman Talebi Fard (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include starting, by a wireless device, a small data transmission, SDT, failure detection timer based on initiating an SDT procedure. The method may also include stopping, by the wireless device, the SDT failure detection timer based on non-SDT data arriving during the SDT procedure. The stopping t...