ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,078, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to LENOVO (BEIJING) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for small data transmission" was invented by Ran Yue (Haidian District, China), Jie Shi (Haidian District, China), Jing Han (Chaoyang District, China), Lianhai Wu (Chaoyang, China) and Haiming Wang (Xicheng District, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present application relate to a method and an apparatus for or small data transmission of a user equipment (UE) in an RRC_IDLE state or an RRC_INACTIVE state. According to an embodiment of the present application, a method can include: a method may include maintaining a ...