ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,099, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Idle/inactive mobility for small data transmission" was invented by Dylan Watts (Montreal), Faris Alfarhan (Montreal) and Loic Canonne-Velasquez (Dorval, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A WTRU operating in an inactive state may be associated with a first cell. The WTRU may be configured to receive configuration information for a time period associated with small data transmission failure detection and a search space associated with small data transmission. The WTRU may be configured to send a first small data transmission and start ...