ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,073, issued on July 1, was assigned to SPREADTRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Method for determining sleep state, terminal, and readable medium" was invented by Huayu Zhou (Shanghai), Xinghang Gao (Shanghai) and Zhikun Xu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a sleep state, a terminal, and a readable medium. The method for determining a sleep state comprises: receiving sleep instruction information sent by a base station; and on the basis of the sleep instruction information, entering a sleep state and selecting different modes. By application of the solution, a UE can be flexibly instru...