ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,648, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Data communication while in RRC inactive state" was invented by Fangli Xu (Beijing), Haijing Hu (Haijing, China), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Longda Xing (San Jose, Calif.), Murtaza A. Shikari (Mountain View, Calif.), Sethuraman Gurumoorthy (San Jose, Calif.), Sree Ram Kodali (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Srinivasan Nimmala (San Jose, Calif.), Srirang A. Lovlekar (Cupertino, Calif.), Xu Ou (San Jose, Calif.) and Yuqin Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to performing data communication while in an inactive state in a cellular communicat...