ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,093, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus of a base station for subsequent transmission in inactive state in wireless communication" was invented by Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Beijing, Canada), Fangli Xu (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 base station (BS) comprising a processor configured to perform operations is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the operations include receiving an initial data from ...