US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 24 for "Extended discontinuous reception (eDRX) for reduced capability (redcap) user equipment" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,632, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Extended discontinuous reception (eDRX) for reduced capability (redcap) user equipment" was invented by Vivek G. Gupta (San Jose, Calif.), Naveen Kumar Palle Venkata (San Diego) and Sudeep Manithara Vamanan (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to supporting extended discontinuous reception (eDRX) by a reduced capability user equipment (RedCap UE). A user equipment (UE) indicates to a network that the UE is operating as a RedCap UE and requests an eDRX configuration. In response, the network selects one or more values...