ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,498, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Indoor communication mode for user equipment" was invented by Aleksandar Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Juan Montojo (San Diego), Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan (San Diego) and Rajat Prakash (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine that the UE is located in an indoor environment. The UE may communicate using an indoor communication mode based at least in part on determining that the UE...