ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,961, issued on March 24, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Reference signal in disconnected mode" was invented by Anders Berggren (Lund, Sweden), Rui Nunes (Lund, Sweden), Nafiseh Seyed Mazloum (Lund, Sweden) and Basuki Priyanto (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a wireless communication device (101) includes, when operating in a connected mode (301), prior to a transition (309) to a disconnected mode (302, 303): receiving, from a communications network (100), at least one downlink message (4021, 4011) comprising configuration information indicative of at least one configuration of a sporadic...