ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,176, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Extension of DRX on for BFR" was invented by Shanyu Zhou (San Diego), Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage medium for extending DRX ON duration are provided. An example method includes identifying a predicted BFD within a DRX OFF duration associated with a configured DRX. The example method may further include extend, based on the predicted BFD, a DRX ON duration associated with the configured DRX. The example method may further include continuing to perform one ...