ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,358, issued on June 23, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"State control method and electronic device" was invented by Wei Hong (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A state control method and an electronic device are provided. The method is applied to a base station, and includes: in response to determining a terminal in a connected state needs to save power, sending a signaling to the terminal, where the signaling is used to instruct the terminal to change a communication state with the base station."

The patent was filed on Sept. 25, 2020, under Application No. 18/028,047.

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