ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,151, issued on June 30, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Cell activation and deactivation in a wireless network" was invented by Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device may be instructed to activate a cell. The wireless device may activate a cell and start a timer. The wireless device may receive downlink control information (DCI). The DCI may indicate monitoring of a downlink control channel or may indicate a resource grant. The wireless device may monitor the downlink control channel and start another timer. The wireless device may receive the resource grant while one or more time...