ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,066, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Signaling lack of full spherical coverage in user equipments" was invented by Vasanthan Raghavan (West Windsor Township, N.J.), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.), Mohsen Farmahini Farahani (Encinitas, Calif.) and Mohammad Ali Tassoudji (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) transmits, to a network entity, a capability message indicating one or more coverage holes in a spherical coverage region around the UE, wherein the spherical coverage region is realized with one or more antenn...