ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,458, issued on March 18, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for small data transmission in RRC inactive state in MR-DC" was invented by Seokjung Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jian Xu (Seoul, South Korea) and Daewook Byun (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for small data transmission in RRC inactive state in MR-DC is provided. A MN, in a DC for a wireless device, transmits, to the wireless device, a paging message including an indication related to an EDT procedure for the SN. A MN receives, from the wireless device, an AS-RAI related to the EDT procedure...