ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,948, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for handling small data transmission in wireless communication system" was invented by Anil Agiwal (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jaehyuk Jang (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Sangyeob Jung (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a 5G communication system or a 6G communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4G communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for SDT related procedures in next generati...