US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on March 18 for "Wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) reachability" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,333, issued on March 18, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) reachability" was invented by J. Patrick Tooher (Montreal), Paul Marinier (Brossard, Canada), Ghyslain Pelletier (Montreal), Faris Alfarhan (Montreal) and Aata El Hamss (Laval, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive/transmit data by employing a discontinuous reception cycle, which may include an awake state and a sleep state. For example, while in an awake state, a WTRU may monitor a PDCCH for a subset of time instances. During the remaining time inst...