US Patent Issued to NEC on July 1 for "Methods, devices, and computer readable medium for communication" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,191, issued on July 1, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Methods, devices, and computer readable medium for communication" was invented by Lin Liang (Beijing) and Gang Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to communication. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, if an expiration of a data inactivity timer occurs during a handover, a terminal device maintains in a RRC connected state. The terminal device releases a link with the source network device. Further, the terminal device is able to ignore the expiration of the data inactivity timer during the handover. In this ...