ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,791, issued on April 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"User equipment operation in a high efficiency transmission operating mode" was invented by Peter Pui Lok Ang (San Diego), Joseph Patrick Burke (San Diego), Cong Nguyen (San Diego), Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego), Tingfang Ji (San Diego), Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.), Yi Huang (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego) and Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be capable of operating according to a first transmission ef...