ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,039, issued on June 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multiple active discontinuous reception configurations" was invented by Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.), Le Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Prashanth Haridas Hande (San Diego), Linhai He (San Diego), Diana Maamari (San Diego) and Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for wireless communication. A first network entity (e.g., a user equipment (UE)) can receive information indicative of a configuration for multicast discontinuous reception (DRX). The information can be received from a second network en...