ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,431, issued on July 8, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Frequency-selective light dormancy using resource block sets" was invented by Karol Schober (Helsinki), Jorma Kaikkonen (Oulu, Finland), Mads Lauridsen (Gistrup, Denmark), Timo Lunttila (Espoo, Finland) and Navin Hathiramani (Coppell, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for user equipment (UE) power saving utilizing resource block (RB)-sets are provided."

The patent was filed on June 3, 2021, under Application No. 18/000,373.

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