ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,406, issued on June 24, was assigned to MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Methods and apparatus for data transmission in connectionless way" was invented by Yuanyuan Zhang (Beijing) and Chia-Chun Hsu (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are provided for connectionless data transfer. In one novel aspect, the UE in INACTIVE state initiates one or more data transmissions without RRC connection upon determining one or more preconfigured transmission conditions. The UE restores an INACTIVE AS context, establishes UL resources, and performs connectionless data transmissions. The UE monitors one or...