US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 14 for "Control of energy harvesting operation in a user equipment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,520, issued on April 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Control of energy harvesting operation in a user equipment" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.), Yuchul Kim (San Diego), Linhai He (San Diego) and Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The aspects described herein allow control of an energy harvesting operation at an apparatus in a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode. The apparatus in the DRX mode may reduce its power consumption and may immediately begin harvesting energy during an active time of a DRX cycle. The apparatus includes a memory and at leas...