ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,932, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for discontinuous reception configurations for network energy savings" was invented by Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Naeem Akl (Somerville, N.J.), Jianghong Luo (Skillman, N.J.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first network entity (e.g., a distributed unit (DU)) may receive, from a second network entity (e.g., a centralized unit (CU)), a control message indicating a common discontinuous reception (C-DRX) configuration associated with a set of user equipm...