ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,663, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Configuring uplink (UL) transmissions during cell discontinuous reception (DRX)" was invented by Naeem Akl (Bridgewater, N.J.), Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for wireless communication by a UE includes receiving, from a network node, a first message indicating at least a first discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration associated with a DRX cycle at the network node. The DRX cycle may be enabled or disabled in accordance with whether the first DRX configuration is in an activated state. The method ...