ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,768, issued on June 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Estimation and utilization of a block fading wireless channel" was invented by Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Jianghong Luo (Skillman, N.J.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.) and Ashwin Sampath (Skillman, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first wireless device (e.g., user equipment (UE), base station) may determine a block fading pattern associated with a communication link between the first wireless device and a second wireless device, the block fading pattern including a pattern of flu...