ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,230, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Communication control method and user equipment for transitioning between RRC modes" was invented by Masato Fujishiro (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication control method comprises transmitting, by a user equipment to a network node, first information indicating that the user equipment prefers one of a RRC idle mode and a RRC inactive mode when data to be transmitted to the network node is not to occur in near future; and in response to changing a preferred RRC mode from a RRC mode indicated by the first information to a RRC connected mod...