ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,956, issued on May 6, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"NR PHR design for mmWave deployment" was invented by Peng Cheng (Beijing), Keiichi Kubota (Tokyo), Gavin Bernard Horn (La Jolla, Calif.), Aleksandar Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Linhai He (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "New radio (NR) power headroom report (PHR) design for millimeter wave (mmWave) deployment is discussed. The power control process for mmWave may include beam-specific periodic PHR reporting and user equipment (UE)-specific event-trigger PHR reporting. The periodic PHR reporting may either provide a single PHR that inc...