ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,108, issued on March 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"System and method for client protocol selection for short data service" was invented by Basavaraj Jayawant Pattan (Bangalore, India) and Ricky Kumar Kaura (Middlesex, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein provide a method for managing short data service (SDS) communication in a mission critical data (MCData) communication system. The method includes determining, by a transmitting MCData UE, whether a pre-determined criteria is met for transmitting a one-to-one standalone SDS message or a group standalone SDS messag...