US Patent Issued to Itron on June 10 for "LTE modem eDRx paging opportunity management" (Washington, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,790, issued on June 10, was assigned to Itron Inc. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"LTE modem eDRx paging opportunity management" was invented by Thomas Uhling (Spokane Valley, Wash.) and Keith Barnes (Waseca, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for sharing resources between a radio access technology (RAT) modem (e.g., an LTE modem) and a processor-based radio (e.g., a software-defined radio) are described. In an example, operation of the RAT modem establishes an extended discontinuous reception mode (eDRX) cycle with a cellular system. The RAT modem sends eDRX scheduling information, that is based at least in part on the eDRX cyc...