ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,320, issued on March 25, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Control of power saving using layer-1 signaling" was invented by Ajit Nimbalker (Fremont, Calif.), Ravikiran Nory (San Jose, Calif.) and Yutao Sui (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for fast adaptation of PDCCH monitoring by a UE via L1 signaling in order to reduce power consumption by the UE are disclosed. A base station sends first configuration information to a user equipment (UE) via higher layer signaling (e.g. RRC) to configure downlink control channel monitoring by the UE. Thereafter, the base station may send d...