US Patent Issued to Apple on July 8 for "Technologies for controlling discontinuous reception operation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,497, issued on July 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Technologies for controlling discontinuous reception operation" was invented by Martin Feuersaenger (Bremen, Germany), Christian Wengerter (Kleinheubach, Germany), Joachim Loehr (Wiesbaden, Germany) and Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart (Darmstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to methods for improving the discontinuous reception (DRX) operation of a user equipment (UE) by introducing media access control (MAC) control elements (CEs) to cause the UE to use short and long DRX cycles."

The patent was filed on Feb. 23, 2024, unde...