ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,375, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Wireless traffic prediction" was invented by Naeem Akl (Somerville, N.J.), Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Karl Georg Hampel (Jersey City, N.J.), Jianghong Luo (Skillman, N.J.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain aspects, the disclosure is directed to a user equipment (UE) configured for wireless communications with a network node. The UE may include a memory comprising instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions. In some examples, the UE may transmit, to a network...