ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,495, issued on June 23, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Dynamic discontinuous reception control with proximity-based timer adjustment" was invented by John Harris (Whitefish Bay, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided that includes receiving a configuration of parameters for discontinuous reception (DRX) operation in which a user equipment monitors a downlink channel. The parameters include at least one timer that specifies a duration in which the user equipment is to be in an active state to monitor the downlink channel. The method includes detecting particular channel activity. The particu...