ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,439, issued on March 25, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Methods for data transmission and user equipment using the same" was invented by Heng-Li Chin (Taipei, Taiwan) and Hsin-Hsi Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a user equipment (UE) for data transmission is provided. The method includes transmitting, in radio resource control (RRC) inactive state, an RRC message to a base station for requesting an RRC state transition on an uplink (UL) resource of a configured grant (CG) configuration; transmitting first uplink data to the base station on an UL resource of the CG configuration;...