US Patent Issued to Mediatek on Aug. 4 for "Modem assisted UL power saving" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,556, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Mediatek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Modem assisted UL power saving" was invented by Ming-Yuan Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chia-Chun Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UE includes an application processor that generates application data to be transmitted to a base station. The UE also includes a modem that determines a downlink active time period. The modem or the application processor determines whether the application data is available before the downlink active time period. The modem or the application processor withholds the transmission of the application data to the base sta...