ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,897, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (South Korea).

"Base station discontinuous reception and transmission design for energy saving network" was invented by Liang Hu (San Diego) and Philippe Jean Marc Michel Sartori (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and at least one user equipment (UE) are disclosed. The method is performed by the at least one UE in a wireless communication system, and includes receiving, from a base station, group downlink control information (DCI) indicating a discontinuous reception (DRX) or discontinuous transmission (DTX) pattern. The at least one UE include...