ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,372, issued on June 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Protocol-data-unit-set-based discarding or processing" was invented by Linhai He (San Diego), Dario Serafino Tonesi (San Diego), Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap (San Diego), Prashanth Haridas Hande (San Diego) and Diana Maamari (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a transmitter may receive a configuration of one or more packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) discard timers for protocol data unit (PDU) sets, the configuration indicating one or more PDU set parameters...