ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,969, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reporting power efficiency for communications" was invented by Idan Michael Horn (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Shay Landis (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Daniel Paz (Geva Carmel, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless communication device, such as a network entity or a user equipment (UE), may transmit a message to another wireless communication device, such as a network entity, including a connection establishment request and an indication of a capability of the wireless communication device to...