ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,054, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Parameters for small data transmission procedure identified with field" was invented by Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Taehun Kim (Fairfax, Va.), Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.), Jinsook Ryu (Oakton, Va.) and Peyman Talebi Fard (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving, by a base station distributed unit from a wireless device not in a radio resource control (RRC) connected state an RRC request message for a small data transmission (SDT) procedure and uplink data associated with the SDT procedure. The...