ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,685, issued on June 10, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Selective direct increase of transmit power level of a wireless communication device to a maximum power level based on detected activity mode or received signal quality" was invented by Qi Jiang (Mountain View, Calif.), Xuemei Ouyang (Mountain View, Calif.), Sriram Sundararajan (Mountain View, Calif.), Srenik Mehta (Fremont, Calif.), Omar El Ayach (Mountain View, Calif.), Nihar Jindal (Mountain View, Calif.) and Daniel Barros (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device comprises one or more sensors configured to generate sens...