ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,651, issued on July 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for signaling maximum permissible exposure backoff indication" was invented by Linhai He (San Diego), Ruiming Zheng (Beijing), Timo Ville Vintola (San Diego) and Masato Kitazoe (Tokyo).

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 determine an average energy level radiated by the UE over a time period. The UE may determine whether the average energy level radiated by the UE over the time period exceeds a maximum permissible exposure (MPE) limit....