ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,172, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method for handling non small data transmission radio bearer during small data transmission and apparatus thereof" was invented by Anil Agiwal (Suwon-si, South Korea), Soenghun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jaehyuk Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and system for converging a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT) are provided. The communication method and system includes int...