ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,311, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for buffer state report" was invented by Bikramjit Singh (Raasepori, Finland), Ying Sun (Taby, Sweden), Massimo Condoluci (Sundbyberg, Sweden) and Xuejun Yang (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for buffer state report. A method performed at a terminal device may comprise: determining a time duration, wherein a buffer size associated with data to be transmitted during the time duration is to be predicted by the terminal device; predicting the buffer...