ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,916, issued on June 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Energy saving mode patterns" was invented by Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego), Hung Dinh Ly (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 at a user equipment (UE) are described. The UE may receive first control signaling indicating an energy saving mode pattern of energy saving modes of a network entity and one or more respective durations over which the network entity is to operate in the energy saving modes for transmissions in a plurality of slots, the energy saving mode pattern based at l...