ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,459, issued on March 18, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Guangdong, China).

"Pre-configured dedicated resource for idle mode transmissions" was invented by Xiubin Sha (Guangdong, China), Bo Dai (Guangdong, China), Ting Lu (Guangdong, China), Kun Liu (Guangdong, China) and Xu Liu (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for providing pre-configured dedicated resources for communications during the RRC (radio resource control) idle state, thereby enabling significant energy savings during the communication of small data packets, are described. One exemplary method for wireless communication includes tr...