US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Feb. 24 for "Discontinuous reception in wireless communication" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,637, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Discontinuous reception in wireless communication" was invented by Ming Yang (San Diego), Kausik Ray Chaudhuri (San Diego) and Juan Montojo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Receiving, from a base station in radio resource control (RRC) connected mode with the UE and prior to an expiration of a drx-InactivityTimer of a medium access control (MAC) entity of the UE, a MAC control element (CE) command for the MAC entity to enter a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle, the command including an layer 2 (L2) uplink (UL) grant, wherein DRX comprises an ability for th...