US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 18 for "Relay operation with energy state modes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,345, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Relay operation with energy state modes" was invented by Marwen Zorgui (San Diego), Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego) and Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A relay device may detect that a network has transitioned from a first energy state mode to a second energy state mode and the second energy state mode may be associated with a reduced network coverage area relative to a network coverage area associated with the first energy state mode. The relay device may activate a r...