ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,815, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Autonomous switching between single frequency network (SFN) and non-SFN scheme" was invented by Kiran Venugopal (Raritan, N.J.), Wooseok Nam (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some wireless communications systems, a user equipment (UE) may support communications with a set of transmission/reception points (TRPs). The UE may receive one or more signals from at least one TRP of the set of TRPs. The one or more signals may indicate a...