ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,188, issued on April 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Dynamic peak reduction tone allocation with low overhead" was invented by Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego), Saeid Sahraei (San Diego), Gokul Sridharan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to techniques for peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction based on a tone reservation (TR) algorithm. For a TR algorithm, a suitable subset of tones from among a full set of tones in a given resource allocation are reserved for use as peak reduction tones (PRT). An apparatus such as a transmission/re...