ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,345, issued on July 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Incorproated (San Diego).

"Reference signal and channel state information processing outside a discontinuous reception active time" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Diana Maamari (San Diego) and Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first network entity for wireless communication may be configured to operate according to a connected DRX mode based on a wakeup signal (WUS), wherein the connected DRX mode includes a DRX active time and a DRX inactive time. The first network entity may send, to a second network entity, capability information of the first ...