ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,398, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Reducing power consumption of a user equipment configured for discontinuous reception" was invented by Andres Reial (Hollviken, Sweden), Sina Maleki (Malmo, Sweden), Ali Nader (Malmo, Sweden) and Ilmiawan Shubhi (Malmo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access node (110) configures a User Equipment, UE (105), with a power saving monitoring pattern, and subsequently transmits a power saving signal configured to switch the UE (105) from monitoring a downlink in accordance with a connected mode discontinuous reception, C-DRX, monitoring pat...