ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,085, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Power control for wireless communications" was invented by Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Yunjung Yi (Vienna, Va.), Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Alireza Babaei (Fairfax, Va.), Youngwoo Kwak (Woodbury, N.Y.) and Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless communications may be used to support transmission power control. A message to schedule a transmission may be received without indicating a parameter for determining a power for the transmission. The transmission power may be determined based on a pathloss refe...