ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,717, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Power headroom differential reporting" was invented by Igor Gutman (Hod HaSharon, Israel), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Juergen Cezanne (Ocean Township, N.J.) and Gokul Sridharan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support power headroom differential reporting for reference resource signals transmitted at different transmission power than other uplink transmissions. In a first aspect, a method of wireless communication in...