US Patent Issued to Mentats on Oct. 7 for "Method and apparatus for paging channel monitoring in association with small data transmission procedure" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,377, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Mentats Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for paging channel monitoring in association with small data transmission procedure" was invented by DaeHeum Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method and apparatus for monitoring a paging channel in association with a small data transmission procedure in a wireless communication system. A terminal may initiate a small data transmission (SDT) procedure. Further, the terminal may monitor a paging channel, while the initiated SDT procedure is ongoing and a timer is not running. The timer may be assoc...