ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,238, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Beam management for small data transmission" was invented by Samuli Heikki Turtinen (Oulu, Finland), Jussi-Pekka Koskinen (Oulu, Finland), Chunli Wu (Beijing) and Sami-Jukka Hakola (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various example embodiments relate to methods and apparatus that support beam management in a small data transmission procedure. A terminal device may comprise at least one processor and at least one memory. The at least one memory includes computer program code stored thereon. The at least one memory and the computer program code ma...