US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on June 17 for "Termination of small data transmission" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,967, issued on June 17, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Termination of small data transmission" was invented by Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.), Taehun Kim (Fairfax, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Yunjung Yi (Vienna, Va.), Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.) and Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A small data transmission (SDT) procedure may be used for data transmission in certain scenarios. The SDT procedure may be terminated based on certain conditions to enable efficient resource utilization. For example, the SDT procedure may be terminated if a wireless device does not have...