ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,206, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for beam information transmission and punctured channel indication" was invented by Shmuel Vagner (San Diego), Senthilkumar Sundaram (San Diego), Abhishek Saurabh Sachidanand Sinha (San Diego), Orod Raeesi (Espoo, Finland), Roberto Airoldi (Helsinki) and Deepak Agarwal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Some wireless communications network may operate in accordance with an open-RAN (ORAN) network specification which may support functional splitting between the ORAN distributed u...