ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,198, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Downlink power control in wireless communications" was invented by Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego), Kazuki Takeda (Minato-ku, Japan) and Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide reference signal configurations including transmission power control offsets for multiple cells. In one example, a network entity obtains a reference signal configuration that comprises one or more transmission power control offsets for a first cell and one or more transmission power control offsets for...