ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,343, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Method of performing small data transmission in radio resource control inactive state and related device" was invented by Yung-Lan Tseng (Taipei, Taiwan), Hsin-Hsi Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan), Mei-Ju Shih (Taipei, Taiwan) and Hung-Chen Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a user equipment for performing a small data transmission (SDT) procedure is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station, an SDT configuration including a plurality of uplink configured grant (UL-CG) configurations for the SDT procedure, each of the plurality o...