US Patent Issued on April 29 for "Systems/methods of reducing power consumption of smartphones in 5G cellular communications" (North Carolina, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,673, issued on April 29.

"Systems/methods of reducing power consumption of smartphones in 5G cellular communications" was invented by Peter D. Karabinis (Cary, N.C.) and Dimitrios P. Karabinis (Edmonds, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of systems/methods are disclosed comprising a smartphone wherein responsive to instructions that are received from a base station the smartphone establishes a plurality of transmit/receive modes, that differ therebetween, comprising a first transmit/receive mode, a second transmit/receive mode, a third transmit/receive mode and a fourth transmit/receive mode. According to some embodiment...