ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,029, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"User equipment (UE) sleep mode adaptation" was invented by Sina Maleki (Malmo, Sweden), Andres Reial (Lomma, Sweden) and Gang Zou (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device, such as a user equipment, UE, determines (410) a first sleep opportunity for the wireless device and evaluates (420) one or more energy-related parameters for each of a plurality of possible sleep modes for the wireless device. The plurality of possible sleep modes correspond to varying degrees of reduced energy consumption by the wireless device, rela...