ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,751, issued on May 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Recovery after packet data convergence protocol packet discard" was invented by Sitaramanjaneyulu Kanamarlapudi (San Diego) and Harish Bhandiwad (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 radio bearer may detect, at a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer, expiry of a timer associated with a packet for transmission. The radio bearer may be configured to discard the packet upon expiry of the timer. Accordingly, the radio bearer may re-enqueue, at a modem of th...