US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 17 for "Uplink reference signal transmissions during power saving operations" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,178, issued on June 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Uplink reference signal transmissions during power saving operations" was invented by Wooseok Nam (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Linhai He (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.) and Kazuki Takeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a user equipment (UE) may be configured for discontinuous reception (DRX) operations using wakeup signals. The UE may monitor periodic wakeup signal occasions for wakeup signals and, in the event that the UE detects a wakeup ind...