US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Nov. 3 for "Discontinuous transmission and discontinuous reception for energy saving" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,111, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Discontinuous transmission and discontinuous reception for energy saving" was invented by Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Mohammad Ghadir Khoshkholgh Dashtaki (Burnaby, Canada), Kai Xu (Herndon, Va.) and Bing Hui (Herndon, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station may enable a power saving operation for a wireless device. The power saving operation may comprise a base station periodically operating a discontinuous transmission (DTX) mode, wherein at least one cell is in a power...