ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,579, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for energy saving in a wireless communication system using an open radio access network" was invented by Yue Wang (Staines, Great Britain) and Junhyuk Song (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method performed a network entity in a wireless communication system using an open-radio access network (O-RAN), the network entity including at least one of a non-real-time RAN intelligent controller (non-RT RIC) and near-RT RIC, the method comprises configuring at least one node with a list of cell...