Article: German Inventors Develop Mobile Station Battery Power Conserving System

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Norman Goris of Dortmund, Germany, and Wolfgang Scheit of Rothenbach, Germany, have developed a system and a method for conserving battery power in a mobile station.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile station and a method of conserving battery power consumed thereby. In one embodiment, the mobile station includes: a chassis having a display and a proximity sensor coupled to the chassis and adapted to cause a power consumption of the display to be reduced when the display is within a predetermined range of an external object."

The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,113,811 on Sept. 26.

The patent has been assigned to Agere Systems ...

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