US Patent Issued to Metapex on July 29 for "Method and apparatus for small data transmission" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,158, issued on July 29, was assigned to Metapex Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for small data transmission" 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 small data transmission in a wireless communication system. A terminal may initiate a small data transmission (SDT) procedure. The terminal may perform a first random access (RA) procedure, while the initiated SDT procedure is ongoing and the first RA procedure is triggered by uplink data arrival. The first RA procedure may be performed using first random access channel (RACH) resources, a...