ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,344, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Hyper frame number (HFN) resynchronization of packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) protocol data units" was invented by Lei Sun (Shanghai), Peng Wu (Shanghai), Arun Prasanth Balasubramanian (San Diego), Jason Tan (San Diego), Yuyi Li (Shanghai), Vaishakh Rao (San Diego), Sivaram Srivenkata Palakodety (San Diego), Vishal Dalmiya (San Diego), Mariano Iberico Torres (San Diego), Shailesh Maheshwari (San Diego) and Tom Chin (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide mechanisms for fast hyper frame number (HFN) resynchronizatio...