ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,465, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and device" was invented by Yiru Kuang (Beijing), Yifan Xue (Beijing), Lixia Xue (Beijing) and Haibo Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a communication method and a device. When a terminal device determines not to monitor DCP on a first DCP monitoring occasion, the terminal device wakes up on a first group of carriers within first DRX on duration associated with the first DCP monitoring occasion, and wakes up or sleeps on a second group of carriers within second DRX on duration associated wit...