ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,828, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Downlink data stall optimization by addressing an out-of-order packet sequence" was invented by Leena Zacharias (San Jose, Calif.), Arnaud Meylan (San Diego), Arun Prasanth Balasubramanian (San Diego), Ankur Srivastava (Lucknow, India), Jason Tan (San Diego) and Tao Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to optimization of packet processing when packets are received out of order in sequence. For example, a user equipment (UE) may determine whether a difference between a sequence number of a first packet and a sequence numbe...