US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 22 for "Macro and micro discontinuous transmission" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,159, issued on July 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Macro and micro discontinuous transmission" was invented by Ravi Agarwal (San Diego) and Gavin Bernard Horn (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A wireless device may receive during an active duration, an indication of an opportunity to request uplink (UL) transmission. The wireless device may identify an opportunity to request UL transmission based at least in part on the indication. In some cases, the active duration may be a discontinuous transmission (DTX) configuration. The wirel...