ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,757,216, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta) and AT&T Technical Services Co. Inc. (Vienna, Va.).

"Systems and methods for optimizing micro-sleep cycles of user equipment for energy savings" was invented by Daniel Vivanco (Ashburn, Va.) and Yupeng Jia (South Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a slot offset value for a target user equipment (UE) based on an application running on the target UE, where the slot offset value is elastic, providing the slot offset value to an access network equipment serving the target UE,...