ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,101, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Management of uplink transmissions and wireless energy transfer signals" was invented by Xiaojie Wang (Hillsborough, N.J.), Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, N.J.) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) and a network entity may communicate according to the capability of the network entity to transmit wireless energy transfer (WET) signals on communications resources as well as scheduling information for WET signals. A network entity may transmit control s...