ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,323, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"User equipment, scheduling node, method for user equipment, and method for scheduling node" was invented by Hongchao Li (Langen, Germany) and Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a communication device, a base station and respective methods for a communication device and a base station. The base station transmits and the communication device receives an on-off indication, when the communication device is in an inactive state or in an idle state. The on-off indication...