ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,769, issued on May 20, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Discontinuous reception method, terminal device and storage medium" was invented by Qianxi Lu (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a discontinuous reception method, comprising: when a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) function of an uplink HARQ process used for the transmission of uplink data is in a disabled state, after receiving an instruction to schedule a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for the transmission of the uplink data, and/or after sending a physical uplink shared channel ...