ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,308, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Protection for downlink signaling radio bearer (SRB) segmentation of a protocol data unit (PDU)" was invented by Ansah Ahmed Sheik (Hyderabad, India), Chinmaya Padhy (Hyderabad, India) and Sarath Kumar Pujari (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE), comprising receiving, from a network entity, at least one protocol data unit (PDU) segment of a set of PDU segments of a PDU, and in response to the receiving, processing the at least one PDU segment p...