ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,386, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Method and device for reducing power consumption of terminal in wireless communication system" was invented by Donggun Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Taehyoung Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Sangbum Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a communication technique that merges IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting higher data transmission rates than 4G systems, and a system therefor. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart homes, smart building...