ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,161, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for pausing small data transmissions" was invented by Muhammad Nazmul Islam (Littleton, Mass.), Jing Lei (San Diego) and Chun-Hao Hsu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may pause, while operating in an inactive mode, the performance of one or more small data transmissions (SDTs) in an initial bandwidth part (BWP) in order to monitor for a first set of reference signals in a default BWP. The UE may pause the performance of the one or more SDTs in th...