US Patent Issued to ASUSTek Computer on Oct. 7 for "Method and apparatus for carrier selection and early data transmission (EDT) in a wireless communication system" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,629, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ASUSTek Computer Inc. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for carrier selection and early data transmission (EDT) in a wireless communication system" was invented by Tun-Huai Shih (Taipei, Taiwan) and Meng-Hui Ou (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are disclosed. In an example from the perspective of a User Equipment (UE), the UE initiates a first Early Data Transmission (EDT) in RRC_INACTIVE state. Responsive to initiating the first EDT, the UE initiates a Random Access (RA) procedure in a cell configured with a normal uplink (NUL) carrier and a supplementar...