ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,201, issued on May 27, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Signal block reception with automatic gain control adjustment" was invented by Gang Zou (Lund, Sweden), Henrik Sjoland (Lund, Sweden), Sina Maleki (Malmo, Sweden) and Andres Reial (Hollviken, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of signal block reception with automatic gain control (AGC) for a receiver is disclosed. The receiver is configured for at least a sleep mode and an active mode. The signal blocks are non-adjacent in time, and each signal block is configured to be received in entirety using a valid AGC setting determined base...