ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,611, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Joint optimization of bandwidth part, search space and connected mode discontinuous reception operation in 5G new radio" was invented by Yang Li (Plano, Texas), Yuchul Kim (Santa Clara, Calif.), Zhu Ji (San Jose, Calif.), Beibei Wang (Cupertino, Calif.), Jia Tang (San Jose, Calif.), Wei Zeng (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.) and Johnson O. Sebeni (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform a method using a status change of a timer associated with a connected mode disconti...