ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,355, issued on March 17, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Selectively enabling PDCP duplication for survival time" was invented by Zhenhua Zou (Solna, Sweden), Torsten Dudda (Wassenberg, Germany) and John Walter Diachina (Garner, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least one Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) packet duplication leg is configured with a logical channel prioritization (LCP) restriction, restricting a logical channel in the duplication leg to which transmission resources are intentionally not available. Stale packets, (not transmitted due to a lack of resources) are discarded...