ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,097, issued on July 21, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Power saving" was invented by Hua Zhou (Herndon, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Ali Cagatay Cirik (Herndon, Va.), Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.), Alireza Babaei (Fairfax, Va.), Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.) and Kai Xu (Herndon, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a base station and a system are provided. In the method, a base station transmits one or more radio resource control messages including a PS-RNTI for a PS mode and a DCI. Additionally, the base station transmits a message indicating that each bit of a dormancy indi...