ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,359, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for granting resources for internet of things communications" was invented by Yisheng Xue (San Diego), Chih-Hao Liu (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego) and Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a base station may transmit, to a secondary user equipment (UE), a first grant to conditionally transmit one or more data messages over a first set of resources upon completion of a detection procedure. The detection procedure may include monitoring a second set...