US Patent Issued to Sharp on July 14 for "User equipment and method for small data transmission" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,623, issued on July 14, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"User equipment and method for small data transmission" was invented by Heng-Li Chin (Taipei, Taiwan), Hsin-Hsi Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan), Yung-Lan Tseng (Taipei, Taiwan), Hai-Han Wang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chia-Hung Wei (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) and a method for small data transmission (SDT) are provided. The method includes initiating an SDT procedure while the UE is in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) Inactive (RRC_INACTIVE) state; initiating a random access (RA) procedure before the SDT procedure is terminated; and determin...