ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,204, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"User equipment activity alignment for power savings" was invented by Sarma V. Vangala (Cupertino, Calif.), Weidong Yang (Cupertino, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Haijing Hu (Cupertino, Calif.), Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata (Cupertino, Calif.), Yuqin Chen (Beijing), Zhibin Wu (Cupertino, Calif.), Alexander Sirotkin (Cupertino, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.), Pavan Nuggehalli (Cupertino, Calif.), Sethuraman Gurumoorthy (Cupertino, Calif.) and Ralf Rossbach (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses for synchronizin...