ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,768, issued on May 5, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption of terminal in wireless communication system" was invented by Taehyoung Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Heedon Gha (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jinkyu Kang (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Youngbum Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Seunghoon Choi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a communication scheme and system for convergence between an IoT technology and a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate beyond a 4G system. The disclosure ...