ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,481, issued on July 14, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Reducing UE awake time after WUS reception for non-paged UEs" was invented by Navin Hathiramani (Coppell, Texas) and Jorma Johannes Kaikkonen (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UE in a sleep state receives a WUS and monitors paging occasion(s). The monitoring includes: receiving a paging message; determining the received paging message is not addressed to the UE; and determining whether another paging occasion should be monitored based at least on paging records in the paging message. The UE reenters the sleep state in response to a determin...