ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,860, issued on June 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for reducing electric power consumption of terminal in wireless communication system" was invented by Suha Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Suyoung Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Euichang Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunjung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seho Myung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate compared to a 4G communication system such as an LTE. According to an embodiment of the ...