ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,855, issued on June 16, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Method of performing a power saving operation and related device" was invented by Mei-Ju Shih (Taipei, Taiwan), Hsin-Hsi Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan) and Hung-Chen Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing a power saving operation for a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station (BS), a plurality of power saving configurations, while the UE is in a radio resource control (RRC) idle state or an RRC inactive state, selecting one of the plurality of power saving configurations according to a rule pr...