ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,282, issued on March 31, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data sending method and for saving power consumption and data receiving method for saving power consumption" was invented by Kun Liu (Shenzhen, China), Bo Dai (Shenzhen, China), Zhaohua Lu (Shenzhen, China), Weiwei Yang (Shenzhen, China), Huiying Fang (Shenzhen, China), Luanjian Bian (Shenzhen, China) and Youjun Hu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a data sending method and apparatus, a data receiving method and apparatus, a first node, and a second node. The data sending method includes that in the case of the inactive state or in the ...