ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,942, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Quasi co-location relationship indications for dormant or deactivated carriers" was invented by Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego), Kazuki Takeda (Minato-ku, Japan), Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.) and Konstantinos Dimou (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a carrier indication that identifies a first carrier and a second carrier for communication between the UE and a network entity. The UE may receive a first quasi co-location (QCL) indica...