ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,617, issued on April 22, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"Method of small data transmission and related device" was invented by Hsin-Hsi Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan), Heng-Li Chin (Taipei, Taiwan), Mei-Ju Shih (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yung-Lan Tseng (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for small data transmission (SDT) and a user equipment (UE) are provided. In the method, a SDT procedure is initiated. A synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block (SSB) is selected during the SDT procedure. Transmission is performed based on a selected SSB during the SDT procedure. A timer is started or restarted in resp...