ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,661, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Indicating RAN notification area update (RNAU) in RRC_INACTIVE state" was invented by Christofer Lindheimer (Linkoping, Sweden), Icaro L. J. Da Silva (Solna, Sweden), Gunnar Mildh (Sollentuna, Sweden) and Paul Schliwa-Bertling (Ljungsbro, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include methods performed by a radio access network (RAN) node of a wireless communication system. Such methods include receiving, from a wireless device via a cell, a request to resume an RRC connected state with the wireless communication network. The reque...