ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,175, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Transmission of grant requests for discontinuous reception (DRX) cycles" was invented by Shweta Jaikrishna Dass (San Diego), Krishna Chaitanya Bellam (Telangana, India), Shailesh Maheshwari (San Diego), Vishal Dalmiya (San Diego), Gang Andy Xiao (San Diego), Vaishakh Rao (San Diego), Sathish Kumar Nallamanti (Telangana, India), Leena Zacharias (San Jose, Calif.), Touseef Khan (San Diego), Sridhar Ramanujam (San Diego), Nan Zhang (Beijing), Xiaojian Long (San Diego) and Ajeet Kumar (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect of the disclosure, a meth...