ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,987, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for sharing usage cost information" was invented by Aria Hasanzadezonuzy (Somerville, N.J.), Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Jianghong Luo (Skillman, N.J.) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the techniques described herein may support balancing of system usage costs with performance. For example, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a usage cost message indicating usage costs associated with each unique set of operating parameters supported by...