ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,150, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for transmission of message a (MSGA) in an idle period within a wireless communication system" was invented by Shaozhen Guo (Beijing), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Changlong Xu (Beijing) and Jing Sun (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, related to transmissions during an idle period of a fixed frame period (FFP). For example, a UE can receive, via system information or radio resource control (RRC) signaling, a FFP defining an idle peri...