ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,257, issued on April 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for grant-free data transmission in wireless communication system" was invented by Sungjin Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Taehan Bae (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication scheme and a system of converging an IoT technology and a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate beyond a 4th generation (4G) system are provided. The communication scheme includes intelligent services (e.g. smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car,...