ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,173, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for predicting traffic and transmitting a buffer prediction status report" was invented by Hyun Seo Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Yong Jin Kwon (Daejeon, South Korea), Yun Joo Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), An Seok Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Yu Ro Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Heesoo Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sung Cheol Chang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation method of a terminal in a communication system may comprise: predicting traffic using a traffic prediction fu...