ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,899, issued on March 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for multimedia uplink packet handling" was invented by Hussein Metwaly Saad (San Diego), Ravi Agarwal (San Diego), Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap (San Diego), Mickael Mondet (Louannec, France), Hyun Yong Lee (San Diego), Chih-Ping Li (San Diego), Prashanth Haridas Hande (San Diego) and Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The method may include a user equipment (UE) generating a set of multimedia packets including a first multimedia packet and a second ...