ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,717, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for improving a network energy savings mode" was invented by Sherif Elazzouni (San Diego), Changhwan Park (San Diego), Shankar Krishnan (San Diego), Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Naeem Akl (Bridgewater, N.J.), Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego) and Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for improving a network energy saving (NES) mode. An example method performed by a first user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a first network entity associated with a source cell, configuratio...