ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,175, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"High pathloss mode multiplexing" was invented by Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Juergen Cezanne (Ocean Township, N.J.) and Vasanthan Raghavan (West Windsor Township, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device may configure one or more first sets of resources of a radio frequency spectrum band associated with a first pathloss mode, and may configure one or more second sets of resources associated with a second pathloss mode. Each set of resources may be configured with some transmissio...