ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,985, issued on July 21, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Methods and apparatuses for power saving operations" was invented by Hsin-Hsi Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan), Chia-Hung Wei (Taipei, Taiwan), Yu-Hsin Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan), Wan-Chen Lin (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chie-Ming Chou (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a User Equipment (UE) for performing a dormant operation is provided. The method receives, from a Base Station (BS), a Radio Resource Control (RRC) configuration indicating a set of one or more dormancy cell groups, where a group of serving cells belongs to a specific dormancy cell group in th...