US Patent Issued to ZTE on March 24 for "Small data transmission" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,093, issued on March 24, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Small data transmission" was invented by Yu Liu (Shenzhen, China) and He Huang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, systems and devices for small data transmissions can occur with user equipment even when the user equipment is in an inactive state. Small data transmissions while in an inactive state can save power and reduce signaling overhead. The small data transmissions may be prepared with small data transmission parameters. A small data transmission indication is included in a reply to user equipment that requests small data transmission c...