ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,424, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Apogee Networks LLC (Plano, Texas).

"Method and device for discontinuous wireless communication" was invented by Xiaobo Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for discontinuous wireless communications. A first receiver receives a first information set, the first information set indicates a first expiration value; a first processor starts a first timer at a first time in a first time period; when the first timer is running, updates the first timer in each first time interval in the first time period and monitors a first-type target signaling in each first candidate sl...