ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,669, issued on March 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multiple panel assistance information to determine a network configuration" was invented by Vasanthan Raghavan (West Windsor Township, N.J.) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for wireless communication with devices equipped with multiple antenna panels are provided. A UE may transmit UE assistance information (UAI) to a wireless communication device associated with other network information such as rank indicator (RI). The UAI may include an indication of a quantity of antenna panels in use, a relative power consum...