ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,746, issued on Feb. 3.

"Enhanced protocol data unit discard procedures for multi-modal traffic" was invented by Diana Maamari (San Diego), Linhai He (San Diego), Mickael Mondet (Louannec, France), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.) and Hyun Yong Lee (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may communicate multi-modal traffic with a network entity over multiple traffic flows. For example, the UE may communicate a first PDU set via a first traffic flow associated with a first discard timer, and a second PDU set via a second traffic flow associated ...