ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,220, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for transmitting packet in wireless communication system" was invented by Sangkyu Baek (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyunjeong Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, performed by a terminal, of transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes setting a value of a Next_Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP)_RX_sequence number (SN) variable as an initial value, the Next_PDCP_RX_SN variable indicating a predicted SN of PDCP data to be recei...