ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,613, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Littleton, Colo.).

"Selective location-based activation of channel quality indication reporting for user equipment" was invented by Sougata Saha (Aurora, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for reducing channel quality indication (CQI) reporting by user equipment (UEs) by selectively triggering the UEs to report CQI based at least on present physical location. UEs are controllable by base stations to toggle between active and inactive CQI reporting modes (inactive being the default mode). By default, base stations can make channel-state-based determi...