ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,906, issued on April 1, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Light connectivity and autonomous mobility" was invented by Yugeswar Deenoo (Chalfont, Pa.), Ghyslain Pelletier (Montreal), Ping Hsuan Tan (Montreal) and Martino M. Freda (Laval, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Light and/or Inactive state connectivity and/or autonomous mobility techniques are contemplated. A WTRU may, for example, have an inactive/idle mode, a light connected/loosely connected/Inactive mode and/or a connected/fully connected/Active mode. A WTRU in light connected mode may have a WTRU context stored in a RAN. A WTRU ma...