ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,338, issued on July 28, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Wireless cell activation and deactivation" was invented by Jing Liu (Shenzhen, China), He Huang (Shenzhen, China) and Jianxun Ai (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present document relates to methods, systems, and devices related to digital wireless communication, and more specifically, to techniques related to wireless cell activation and deactivation. In one exemplary aspect, a method for data communication is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a terminal, a first message from a network node, the first message including information for ...