ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,618, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Signal reception method and terminal device" was invented by Weijie Xu (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for receiving a signal is performed by a terminal device. The method includes: controlling, by the terminal device when entering active time of discontinuous reception DRX, one or more carriers to stop, within at least part of the active time, processing at least part of the signal transmitted by the one or more carriers."

The patent was filed on Nov. 22, 2021, under Application No. 17/532,912. ...