ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,688, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for buffer state report" was invented by Min Wang (Lulea, Sweden), Jan Christoffersson (Lulea, Sweden), Bikramjit Singh (Raasepori, Finland), Majid Gerami (Lund, Sweden), Stefan Wanstedt (Lulea, Sweden) and Marten Ericson (Gammelstad, Sweden).

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: predicting a buffer size associated with data to be transmitted; and transmitting a buffer state report, BS...