ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,735, issued on March 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Inactive direct transmission from user equipment (UE) via random access channel (RACH) procedure" was invented by Fangli Xu (Beijing), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Longda Xing (San Jose, Calif.), Murtaza A. Shikari (Mountain View, Calif.), Sarma V. Vangala (Campbell, N.J.), Srinivasan Nimmala (San Jose, Calif.) and Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques discussed herein can facilitate inactive state transmissions for a User Equipment (UE) via a 4-step or 2-step inactive sta...