ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,804, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Power harvesting using a multi-tone energy waveform" was invented by Raviteja Patchava (San Diego) and Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A distributed unit (DU) may output to a radio unit (RU), a data waveform and an initial resource allocation for the data waveform. The RU may generate and transmit to the DU a peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) for the data waveform and a peak power value for a transmission time interval (TTI). Based on the PAPR and the peak power v...