ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,150, issued on June 9, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Method and device for performing small data transmission" was invented by Hsin-Hsi Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan), Heng-Li Chin (Taipei, Taiwan), Mei-Ju Shih (Taipei, Taiwan), Yung-Lan Tseng (Taipei, Taiwan) and Ming-Hung Tao (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a UE for performing SDT is provided. The method includes receiving, from a BS, system information that includes a SIB1; determining whether to initiate an SDT procedure based on one or more conditions, the one or more conditions including the SIB1 including an SDT configuration; and initiatin...