ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,670, issued on June 10, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and wireless communication device exploiting additional reference symbols in idle mode for power saving" was invented by Sina Maleki (Malmo, Sweden), Ali Nader (Malmo, Sweden), Andres Reial (Malmo, Sweden) and Gang Zou (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication device having a receiving module, a transmitting module, and a processor which includes a determining module, and a processing module, wherein the wireless communication device is arranged to perform a method for power savings in a wireless communicati...