ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,057, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for saving energy in wireless network communications" was invented by Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego), Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego) and Yu Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for multiple operation modes for communication between a network entity and a user equipment (UE). Different operation modes may have different power consumption at the network entity, and different zones within a coverage area of the network entity may have different operation modes, such a...