ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,903, issued on April 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"RNA updating in SDT procedure" was invented by Fangli Xu (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Murtaza A. Shikari (Mountain View, Calif.), Ralf Rossbach (Munich), Sarma V. Vangala (Campbell, Calif.) and Srinivasan Nimmala (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform a method for supporting a periodical radio access network (RAN) notification area (RNA) mechanism when small data transmission (SDT) is enabled for a user equipment device (UE). The ...