ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,554, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Transmitting optical beacons that indicate optical identifiers" was invented by Yehonatan Dallal (Kfar Saba, Israel), Idan Michael Horn (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Shay Landis (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

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 detect, via a camera of the UE, an optical beacon emitted from a network node, wherein the optical beacon is associated with a modulation with a repeated pattern that indicates an optical cell identifier associated w...