US Patent Issued to Apple on July 28 for "Relaxation criterion for UE power saving" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,123, issued on July 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Relaxation criterion for UE power saving" was invented by Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Manasa Raghavan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Qiming Li (Beijing), Sigen Ye (San Diego), Xiang Chen (Campbell, Calif.) and Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a user equipment (UE) includes: determining that a first set of criteria is met for relaxing an evaluation; in response to the determining that the first set of criteria is met, entering a relaxation mode in which the evaluation is ...