ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,774, issued on May 5, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Managing energy usage of a user equipment device for wireless communications" was invented by Jibing Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Erik Stauffer (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for improving, for a set of conditions at a UE, the usage of energy stored at a UE include determining a preferred or requested partitioning of the UE's stored energy usage during wireless data transfer between the UE and the base station (e.g., an amount or percentage of stored energy utilized by the UE for baseband signal processing with respect to the amo...