ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,484, issued on July 14, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Energy saving for periodic transmissions" was invented by Selahattin Gokceli (Espoo, Finland), Ismael Peruga Nasarre (Oulu, Finland), Juha Yli-Kaakinen (Tampere, Finland), Jukka Olavi Talvitie (Tampere, Finland), Esa Tapani Tiirola (Oulu, Finland), Kari Pekka Pajukoski (Oulu, Finland), Oskari Tervo (Oulu, Finland) and Mikko Valkama (Nokia, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques are provided for determining, by a network device, a number indicating a quantity of user equipment (UE) that are in an idle state, determining, by the network ...