US Patent Issued to Apple on July 1 for "Context fetch procedure for inactive direct data transmission" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,227, issued on July 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Context fetch procedure for inactive direct data transmission" was invented by Fangli Xu (Cupertino, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.), Haijing Hu (Cupertino, Calif.), Murtaza A Shikari (Cupertino, Calif.), Sarma V. Vangala (Cupertino, Calif.) and Srinivasan Nimmala (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus of a device that communicates data between a user equipment (UE) device and a base station when the user equipment is in the inactive state is described. In some embodiments, the last serving base station of the UE and the ...