ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,493, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Beam specific idle discontinuous reception configuration" was invented by Aria Hasanzadezonuzy (Somerville, N.J.), Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Jianghong Luo (Skillman, N.J.), Naeem Akl (Bridgewater, N.J.), Konstantinos Dimou (New York City, N.Y.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Idle discontinuous reception (I-DRX) configurations may be managed on a per beam or a per subset of beams basis. The network may indicate, via system information, the I-DRX configuration for...