ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,735, issued on April 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Application timeline with unified design for active mode user equipment power saving for apparatuses, systems, and methods" was invented by Huaning Niu (Cupertino, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.), Farhan Aziz (San Diego), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong He (Cupertino, Calif.), Navid Ehsan (San Diego), Sigen Ye (San Diego), Wei Zeng (Cupertino, Calif.), Wei Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.) and Weidong Yang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication system may adapt physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring behaviors usin...