ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,890, issued on May 6, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Range extension for radio link control status reporting" was invented by Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.), Tao Luo (San Diego), Juan Montojo (San Diego), Kausik Ray Chaudhuri (San Diego) and Atanu Basudeb Halder (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive radio resource control (RRC) signaling that indicates to configure the UE with one or more formats for transmitting a radio link control (RLC) status report. The UE may transmit th...