ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,549, issued on April 7, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Power reduction method and apparatus" was invented by Qiujin Guo (Shenzhen, China), Mengzhu Chen (Shenzhen, China), Bo Dai (Shenzhen, China), Jun Xu (Shenzhen, China), Xuan Ma (Shenzhen, China), Youjun Hu (Shenzhen, China), Xiaoying Ma (Shenzhen, China), Hong Tang (Shenzhen, China) and Jianqiang Dai (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, system for wireless communication are described and include a method of wireless communication. A method of wireless communication, comprising receiving, by a communication device, an indication of a di...