US Patent Issued to Sharp on Aug. 5 for "Method and user equipment for handling a survival time state" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,468, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Method and user equipment for handling a survival time state" was invented by Heng-Li Chin (Taipei, Taiwan), Hai-Han Wang (Taipei, Taiwan), Hsin-Hsi Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chia-Hung Wei (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a user equipment (UE) for handling a survival time state are provided. The method includes: receiving a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) configuration for indicating that a Data Radio Bearer (DRB) associated with a PDCP entity supports a survival time state functionality, the PDCP entity being associated with at least...