ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,173, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods for discontinuous reception (DRX) in conjunction with guaranteed low-latency services" was invented by Ying Sun (Taby, Sweden), Yanpeng Yang (Jarfalla, Sweden) and Mats Folke (Vallingby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include methods for a user equipment (UE) configured to operate in a wireless network according to a periodic discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle that includes periodic DRX on durations. Such methods include awakening for at least a first duration from a low energy consumption state. The first duration...