ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,915, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Nonlinear power amplifier operating mode indication" was invented by Morteza Soltani (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Iyab Issam Sakhnini (San Diego) and Raviteja Patchava (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A transmitting device may determine a power amplifier operating mode associated with non-linear distortion of an input waveform for a power amplifier, where the power amplifier operating mode may be from a set of two or more power amplifier operating modes e...