ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,170, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"PDU rate reduction in mobile communications" was invented by Jarkko Eskelinen (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various solutions for protocol data unit (PDU) rate reduction in mobile communications are described. A processor of an apparatus implementable in a user equipment (UE) generates a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) data PDU containing a plurality of service data units (SDUs). The apparatus then transfers the PDCP data PDU to a receiver of the apparatus."

The patent was filed on Sept. 30, 2021, under Application No. 18/247,1...