US Patent Issued to Sharp on July 1 for "Monitoring physical downlink control channel for small data transmission" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,154, issued on July 1, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Monitoring physical downlink control channel for small data transmission" was invented by Hsin-Hsi Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan), Heng-Li Chin (Taipei, Taiwan), Wan-Chen Lin (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yung-Lan Tseng (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a user equipment (UE) to monitor a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) is provided. The method receives, while being in a radio resource control (RRC)_CONNECTED state, from a base station (BS), an RRC release message that includes a small data transmission (SDT) configuration. After receiving the RRC relea...