US Patent Issued to Sharp on July 22 for "Method and user equipment for small data transmission" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,164, issued on July 22, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Method and user equipment for small data transmission" was invented by Hsin-Hsi Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan), Heng-Li Chin (Taipei, Taiwan), Yung-Lan Tseng (Taipei, Taiwan) and Hai-Han Wang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a user equipment (UE) for small data transmission (SDT) are provided. The method includes: receiving, from a base station (BS), a common time alignment (TA) timer configured via system information; receiving, from the BS, a configured grant (CG)-SDT-specific TA timer configured via a CG-SDT-specific configuration; and determinin...