US Patent Issued to Nokia on June 24 for "Time based validity for beam management with connected mode discontinuous reception" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,182, issued on June 24, was assigned to Nokia (Espoo, Finland).

"Time based validity for beam management with connected mode discontinuous reception" was invented by Jorma Kaikkonen (Oulu, Finland), Timo Koskela (Oulu, Finland) and Sami Hakola (Kempele, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for beam management reporting in connected mode discontinuous reception (C-DRX) are provided. One method includes configuring a user equipment (UE) in connected mode discontinuous reception (C-DRX) with a timer that determines at least one of when the UE monitors physical downlink contr...