ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,263, issued on June 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for system information broadcast in a service-based wireless system" was invented by Aziz Gholmieh (Del Mar, Calif.), Miguel Griot (La Jolla, Calif.) and Gavin Bernard Horn (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In the context of a service-based wireless system, a network entity of a random access network (RAN) may aggregate system information block (SIB) configurations from multiple core network services, where the core network services are offered or provided by a service-...