ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,143, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Divergence statistical approach for narrow beam-based channel access" was invented by Mohammed Ali Mohammed Hirzallah (San Diego), Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan (San Diego), Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego), Giovanni Chisci (San Diego), Vinay Chande (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Aleksandar Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.), Marco Papaleo (Bologna, Italy) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless communications systems and methods related to accessing a channel based on an interference condition in a wireless communication...