ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,875, issued on June 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Coverage adaptation and impact on idle user equipment (UE)" was invented by Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Naeem Akl (Somerville, N.J.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

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) may communicate with a network entity within a first coverage area associated with a first wireless cell. The UE may receive a system information (SI) update indication that indicates a modification of the first coverage area to a second coverage area. The SI update indication may ...