ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,908, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"System and method for network dynamic on/off signaling" was invented by Sigen Ye (San Diego), Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Hong He (Cupertino, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Cupertino, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego) and Chunxuan Ye (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is described for a dynamic off period of a base station within a wireless communication environment and a process for notifying a UE of the same. In a first scenario, the DCI message is modified wit...