ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,526, issued on April 7, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for cell reselection for network energy saving in mobile communications" was invented by Chien-Chun Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shiauhe Tsai (San Jose, Calif.) and Wei-De Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various solutions for cell reselection for network energy saving with respect to user equipment and network apparatus in mobile communications are described. An apparatus may receive a network energy saving assistant information (NESAI) from a network node. The NESAI may comprise a cell barred field or a cell reservation...