ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,171, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Low-power radio reference signal signaling" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.), Marwen Zorgui (San Diego) and Yuchul Kim (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low-power reference signal method includes: transmitting, from a UE to a network entity, a capability message indicating a capability of the UE to process low-power reference signals using a low-power radio of the UE, wherein the low-power radio is configured to process first reference signals using less power than a main radio of the UE is configured to use to proces...