ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,013, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Multi-mode configuration for coverage enhancements" was invented by Jing Lei (San Diego), Chao Wei (Beijing) and Wanshi Chen (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to maintaining, defining, configuring and implementing a coverage enhancement mode defined for radio access network. A base station may maintain parameters that define multiple coverage enhancement modes in a lookup table and may select a first coverage enhancement mode from the two or more coverage enhancement modes for use with a first user equipment to accommodate use...