ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,443, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Demodulation reference signal transmission from multiple base stations" was invented by Avik Sengupta (San Jose, Calif.), Bishwarup Mondal (Santa Ramon, Calif.), Alexei Davydov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) and Sameer Pawar (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for user equipment (UE) idle mode operations. In embodiments, a UE wakes up more than once during a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) cycle. Inter-frequency measurement requirements may be relaxed based on DRX cycle length. So...