ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,745, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Power saving for connected devices" was invented by Jaya Venku Naidu Sabbavarapu (Hyderabad, India), Jayapal Aruri (Hyderabad, India), Nigam Mohan Palo (Hyderabad, India) and Sagar Kotte (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a device may pair with a user equipment (UE) via a short-range wireless communication protocol. The device may refrain, while operating in an idle or inactive mode, from activating a cellular modem to monitor one or more paging occasi...