US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on Feb. 17 for "Methods and apparatus for handling MTC long DRX cycle/sleep lengths" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,179, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods and apparatus for handling MTC long DRX cycle/sleep lengths" was invented by Ulises Olvera-Hernandez (Saint-Lazare, Canada), Ghyslain Pelletier (Montreal), Peter S. Wang (E. Setauket, N.Y.), Kai Liu (Dublin, Ohio), Guanzhou Wang (Brossard, Canada), Marian Rudolf (Montreal), Samian Kaur (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.) and Michael F. Starsinic (Newtown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Current wireless networks do not allow machine type communication (MTC) devices to have long discontinuous reception (DRX) cycles or sleep lengths. A long DR...