ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,596, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for transitioning radio resource control state of a repeater" was invented by Naeem Akl (Bridgewater, N.J.), Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Karl Georg Hampel (Jersey City, N.J.) and Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Techniques described herein support transitioning the radio resource control (RRC) state of a network controlled repeater (NCR). A distributed unit (DU) and a central unit (CU) may coordinate the release and resumption of the RRC connection of the ...