ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,029, issued on July 29, was assigned to Parallel Wireless Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).

"Energy-efficient base station with synchronization" was invented by Prashanth Rao (Wilmington, Mass.), Steven Paul Papa (Windham, N.H.), Christopher Simmonds (Andover, Mass.) and Ramesh Annavajjala (Nashua, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and computer software are disclosed for providing an energy efficient base station with synchronization. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed, comprising: performing traffic analysis to determine off-peak hours duration when traffic is light; updating downlink and uplink schedulers to transmit a ...