ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,381, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Enhanced connected mode DRX procedures for NR" was invented by Guodong Zhang (Woodbury, N.Y.), Pascal M. Adjakple (Great Neck, N.Y.), Lakshmi R. Iyer (King of Prussia, Pa.), Stephen E. Terry (Northport, N.Y.) and Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein include DRX operations that address impacts of beamforming to current DRX operations. It is recognized herein that the new NR-PDCCH may affect the downlink control channel monitoring in DRX operations. DRX embodiments described herein also...