ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,436, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Cell measurements in energy saving mode" was invented by Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Naeem Akl (Bridgewater, N.J.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) output by a first cell operating in an energy saving mode. The UE may receive timing information output by a second cell. The UE may measure the CSI-RS output by the first cell using the timing informat...