US Patent Issued to Sharp on July 22 for "Methods and apparatus for performing idle mode measurement in RRC inactive state" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,061, issued on July 22, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Methods and apparatus for performing idle mode measurement in RRC inactive state" was invented by Yung-Lan Tseng (Taipei, Taiwan), Hsin-Hsi Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan), Mei-Ju Shih (Taipei, Taiwan) and Ming-Hung Tao (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. In the method, at least one idle mode measurement configuration is received from a cell of a serving radio access network (RAN) via a downlink control signaling. Whether a small data transmission (SDT) procedure is ongoing while the UE is staying in a radio r...