ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,434, issued on March 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"DCI decoding for micro sleep activation" was invented by Shay Kalfon (Hod HaSharon, Israel), Ran Iron (Tel Aviv, Israel), Oleg Litvak (Ariel, Israel), Shay Turel (Einat, Israel), Ron Bercovich (Kfar-Saba, Israel) and Lior Uziel (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UE determines an activity status associated with each CC of a set of CCs based on PDCCH decoding of DCI. The set of CCs may be associated with hardware modules at the UE. An inactive set of CCs may be determined to have an inactive activity status. An active set of CCs may be determined to...