ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,045, issued on June 17, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Measurement relaxation" was invented by Jussi-Pekka Koskinen (Oulu, Finland), Samuli Heikki Turtinen (Oulu, Finland), Lei Du (Beijing) and Lars Dalsgaard (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to measurement relaxation. In an aspect, a terminal device determines a short discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle and a long DRX cycle configured for the terminal device. Based on at least one of the short DRX cycle or the long DRX cycle, the terminal device determines at least one of (i) whether the termi...