ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,079, issued on July 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Power mode distinction" was invented by Siyi Chen (Beijing), Changlong Xu (Beijing), Jing Sun (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Hao Xu (Beijing) 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 may determine a power mode of a base station based at least in part on a control resource set (e.g., CORESET0) configuration index received in a master information block from the base station and transmit communications to the base station with...