ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,498, issued on July 8, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Small data transmission timer" was invented by Taehun Kim (Fairfax, Va.), Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.) and Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device receives, from a base station, an RRC release message comprising a suspend configuration comprising a configuration for an SDT procedure indicating one or more radio bearers configured for the SDT procedure. The wireless device transitions to an RRC inactive state, receives, from the base station, a SIB comprising a timer value of a SDT timer for tran...