ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,531, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for buffer state reporting and data burst alignment" was invented by Yee Sin Chan (San Francisco), Zhu Ji (Cupertino, Calif.), Curt Wong (Bellevue, Wash.) and Xiaodi Zhang (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are aspects related to a device that can include a wireless communication interface and one or more processors. The one or more processors can generate a plurality of data packets. The one or more processors can allocate the plurality of data packets to a buffer for transmission to a n...