ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,266, issued on April 14, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Terminal state control method, terminal, and non-transitory readable storage medium" was invented by Li Chen (Dongguan, China), Xiaodong Shen (Dongguan, China) and Xueming Pan (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a state of a terminal includes: triggering the terminal to enter a first state in a case that a first condition is met or a network indication is received, where power consumption of the terminal in the first state is less than power consumption of the terminal in a connected state, an idle sta...