ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,756, issued on March 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Data packet store, forward, and monitoring functionality for network node or modem" was invented by Miguel Griot (La Jolla, Calif.), Gavin Bernard Horn (La Jolla, Calif.) and Ravi Agarwal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for wireless communication. A method of wireless communication includes receiving from an application server, at a network node of a wireless communication system, an indication of data to be delivered to at least one wireless device; determining a handling of the data; and transmitting at least one report relating...