ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,457, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Base station, user equipment, and method for power saving configuration" was invented by Yung-Lan Tseng (Taipei, Taiwan), Chia-Hsin Lai (Taipei, Taiwan), Hsin-Hsi Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan) and Mei-Ju Shih (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a base station (BS) for power saving configuration is provided. The method includes receiving at least one of a first Resource Control (RRC) parameter or a second RRC parameter, the first RRC parameter indicating that a user equipment (UE) supports a first search space set group (SSSG) switching mechan...