ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,148, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods for UE energy consumption reduction in RRC_INACTIVE state" was invented by Istiak Hossain (Kista, Sweden), Andreas Hoglund (Solna, Sweden), Tuomas Tirronen (Helsinki) and Stefan Wanstedt (Lulea, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for receiving, and controlling the reception of, transmissions at a wireless device. A method performed by a base station comprises deriving a paging cycle for the wireless device, wherein the paging cycle controls the listening of the wireless device to a downlink channel for transmi...