ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,016, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Physical uplink shared channel based small data transmission" was invented by Gang Xiong (Portland, Ore.) and Sergey Sosnin (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides techniques for physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) only based small data transmission, including: configuration of pre-allocated UL resource (PUR) set; association of synchronization signal block (SSB) and PUSCH transmission; scrambling sequence generation of the PUSCH transmission; and a procedure for PUSCH only transmission carrying small data. Other...