ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,356, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Energy-saving method, base station, control unit, and storage medium" was invented by Bo Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Yazhu Ke (Shenzhen, China), Chenhong Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Peng Zhou (Shenzhen, China) and Shaojiang Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an energy-saving method, a base station, a control unit, and a storage medium. The method includes: collecting energy-consumption influencing factor data of a target cell; predicting a load trend of the target cell according to the energy-consumption influencing factor data; and determi...