ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,296, issued on June 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for signaling antenna module information for devices with adaptable form factor configurations" was invented by Vasanthan Raghavan (West Windsor Township, N.J.), Mohammad Ali Tassoudji (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Tao Luo (San Diego), Raghu Narayan Challa (San Diego) and Ruhua He (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for communicating antenna module information, beamforming capabilities, power control information, etc., for computing devices capable of operating in multiple fo...